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Description: No. 37 (south portion). No. 39 & Albany Club and two pairs of gate piers to forecourt

Address: 35 - 37 Clare Road (odd) Halifax Calderdale HX1 2JP

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: Clare Road (east side) (Now also Part of 35 Clare Road)

Full description:
{formerly listed as Nos. 39 & 41 (The Albany Club)} Two pairs of gate piers to forecourt. Includes Nos. 1 to 7 (odd) Hope Hall Street. Mid/later C18. Substantial stone house with detached wings. 2 storeys. 5 windows. Modillion main cornice with wide pediment to slated roof. 4-columned, Doric entrance portico with pediment. Arched doorway and side lights Venetian window above with corniced windows either side. Circular windows in tympanum. Addition to north connecting to wing. Plain south return with eaves to roof and iron escape stair. Rear elevation like front but with exposed, rusticated basement from which a branching stair has been removed. Large Venetian window to staircase and lunette in tympanum of pediment. Pair of long detached wings flanking house and enclosing forecourt. 2 low storeys. Modillion eaves-cornice with open pediments at front and back over large circular window with door below, both rusticated. South wing (Nos. 1 to 7 (odd) Hope Hall St) has a number of blocked windows and new openings: rear altered. North wing (now part of No. 37) considerably altered especially at rear where it is unroofed. 2 pairs of low rusticated gate piers with enrichment. Interior has good stone staircase separated from hall by Doric colonnade. Decorated ceiling. South rear room of some interest (Corinthian colonnade etc) but rest more or less altered. (Nos. 37 to 39 the Albany Club its gate piers & Nos. 1-7 (odd) form a group).