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Description: Officers Mess to former Wellesley Barracks

Address: Former Officers Mess Wellesley Park Gibbet Street Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Gibbet Street (north off)

Full description:
Officers' mess, now offices. 1875. Designed by Royal Engineer's architect. Coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with 5 ridge stacks and a single gable stack, raised coped gables with kneelers. Chamfered plinth and quoins. 2 storey. Main east facade has very irregular fenestration and Gothic Revival style detailing. Projecting off-centre porch with pointed arches supported on bold circular columns with foliate capitals and a hipped slate roof. Inner doorway has chamfered surround and C20 door. Above are 2 small sash windows. To left a slightly projecting gable with 2 large cross mullion windows on the ground floor and 3 sashes under a single pointed relieving arch above, beyond a single storey projecting wing with canted bay front with cross mullion windows. To right single sash, then a pair of sashes on both floors, beyond a slightly projecting gable with 3 sashes below and 2 sashes above. Another pair of sashes then a single sash on both floors with slightly projecting gable end with 3 sashes below and 3 tall narrow sashes above under Gothic relieving arch. Small gabled porch projects from right return with moulded doorway under segment head. This barracks complex was opened in 1877 as the recruitment and infantry training depot for the Duke of Wellington's (West Yorkshire) Regiment, known as the 'Dukes'.