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Description: Dwelling, formerly coach house

Address: 146A Wakefield Road Lightcliffe Halifax West Yorkshire HX3 8TH

Grade: II

Group detail: Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe

Full description:
Dwelling, formerly coach house. c1775. converted to dwelling c1995. Probably built soon after the rebuilding of Cliffe House which it served. Brick with some ashlar dressings. Slate roof. PLAN: Late C18 linear range, forming east side of stable court. EXTERIOR: FRONT (West) ELEVATION: Two storey, hipped slate roof, with central late C20 doorway inserted into adapted blind-arched cart door. Three round-arched windows to either side, nos. 2 and 4 probably late C20 conversions of openings of other forms (probably much as in the stable range). To first floor central small semi-circular light, with three round-headed windows to either side, the middle window in each case dropping lower than those to either side. All windows newly framed in wood. Late C20 single-storey brick building attached to south end of range is not of interest. A post-1854 (map evidence) addition to the rear (east of the coach house) has not been seen but is unlikely to be of interest. INTERIOR: converted in 1996 to domestic dwelling. HISTORY: Cliffe Hill, the adjoining mansion, is believed to have been built in 1775. The stables and coach house complex are of similar date, and are more than purely functional: intended to impress (as were the modest park-like grounds in which the house was set), the stable yard was designed in a Neo-classical manner with an unusual screen wall. Listed for group value with the stables and attached enclosure wall.