2, Calverley Lane

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PUDSEY Farsley CALVERLEY LANE (east side), No 2

GV II Former district council offices and library now partly occupied as house and offices. Precise date of built uncertain but first appears on OS map of 1891. Ashlar, Welsh blue slate roof.

Two storeys with attic and cellar. Square on plan with doorways to all four sides. Three-bay symmetrical facade to road has pilastered doorcase with entablature, cornice and blocking course. Flanking ground-floor windows have architraves and panelled aprons. Three windows to first floor have projecting sills. All retain eighteen-pane sashes. Eaves band and stone gutter. Hipped roof with two end stacks to left and one other to right.

Rear has tall doorway with monolithic jambs and margin-glazed overlight flanked by windows with lintels and sills on both floors with large taking-in doorway with double doors to first floor, centre. Square gutter brackets. Left-hand return has central doorway with overlight with tall narrow window above and flanking windows on ground floor only. Gutter brackets. Right-hand return has one bay of windows for house to left of doorway with wooden surround and large shop window with arch-headed glazing. Three sash windows above. Stone gutter. Attached to wall on this elevation is marble plaque recording the fallen of the "SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902".

Interior: stair-hall has full-height open-string stair, with paired, slender, turned balusters and wreathed and ramped handrail. Main sitting room has doorway with architrave, deep skirting and finely-moulded ceiling cornice with central foliated boss. Cellar lit by sash windows below ground has original fireplace with stone shelf, set-pot and long stone sink.

Listing NGR: SE2180535510

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 31 January 2017.