RYLSTONE HOUSE List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: RYLSTONE HOUSE List entry Number: 1355072
Location
RYLSTONE HOUSE, 66 AND 68, PONTEFRACT ROAD Grade: II
Date first listed: 11-May-1988
Details
ACKWORTH PONTEFRACT ROAD SE41NW (east side) High Ackworth 2/11 Nos. 66 and 68 – (Rylstone House) – II
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Late C17, altered. Coursed squared sandstone, composition tile roof. Long 3-unit range, gable to road; single-depth plan, with modern additions to rear. Two and 3 storeys under one roof, with 6 1st- floor windows. The left half (No 68) has a modern porch and bay window under a pentice roof, a vertical-rectangular window to the left, 3 similar windows at 1st floor (all these now top-hung casements with glazing bars), and at 2nd floor a small round-headed window with Y-tracery and two small 2-light casements; raised verge with ridged coping and kneelers. The left gable has an extruded chimney stack (breaking the coping in front of the ridge), at ground floor a modern flat-roofed bay window, at 2nd floor level to the rear of the stack remains of a mullioned window with hoodmould and a blocked attic window, The right-hand half (No. 66) has a Tuscan porch in the centre, a modern canted bay to the right, a vertical-rectangular top-hung casement with glazing bars to the left, 2 similar windows at 1st floor; in addition in vertical alignment at the junction of the two houses, 3 snail round-headed windows, the 1st and 3rd with Y-tracery. Interior: No. 66 has a chamfered spine-beam, a large segmental-arched brick fireplace beneath a timber pad (which may have been a bressummer to an earlier and larger fireplace); in the former rear wall, a Tudor-arched doorway with chamfered surround; interior of No 68 not inspected, but may contain features of interest. (No 70, attached at left end of range, is not included in the item).
National Grid Reference: SE 44047 17804
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