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Description: CO's House at Wellesley Barracks

Address: Former Music School Wellesley Park Gibbet Street Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 0BA

Grade: II

Group detail: Gibbet Street (north off)

Full description:
Commanding Officer's House, now office. 1875. Designed by Royal Engineer's architect. Coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with raised and coped gables with kneelers. 2 tall external chimney stacks. Quoins and plinth. 2 storey. Main west front has central doorway with glazed panel door and wooden hood with segmental leaded top supported on wooden brackets. Above is a single window. Gabled wing to right projects slightly. Either side are pairs of plain sashes with segment heads, and above pairs of similar sashes. This barracks complex was opened in 1877 as the recruitment and infantry training depot for the Duke of Wellinton's (West Yorkshire) Regiment, know as the 'Dukes'.