Bankfield Museum And Screen Wall To Forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1954. Museum. 10 related planning applications.
Bankfield Museum And Screen Wall To Forecourt
- WRENN ID
- cold-frieze-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1954
- Type
- Museum
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/02/2012
SE 0926 SW 11/197 3.11.54 1164
BOOTHTOWN ROAD (East Side) Bankfield Museum and Screen wall to forecourt
II
1857 and 67 (?). Stone mansion of irregular, extended form. 2 main storeys above a basement. Eaves to hipped, slated roof. Italianate C14/C15 character especially to later main entrance block. This has an exposed, rusticated basement with a carriage porch (now enclosed). Arcading to 2 upper storeys. Behind rises low belvedere tower lighting staircase. West and south sides and 2 storeys with arcaded loggias etc now partly altered. Screen wall to east of forecourt with bowed centre. Interior of main block of considerable interest through much obscured by temporary fittings. Good entrance stair of marble leads up to main, top-lit, hall both with painted decoration, Other rooms apparently of some quality but now with partitions and false ceilings etc. Bankfield was built for Col Akroyd whose mills and model village of Akroydon lie on the west side of Boothtown Road.
Listing NGR: SE0911226244
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