6 And 8, Camp Mount

PONTEFRACT CAMP MOUNT SE 42 SW, SE 4521 NW 2/14, 7/14 Nos 6 and 8 23.3.88 GV II

Pair of villas. c1850. Rendered and painted artificial stone with painted stucco dressings, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with cellars and attics: H-shaped plan; 1:1:2:1:1 bays. Front, now garden front: rendered; central paired round-arched doorways, with 4-panel door to left and part-glazed door to right, each below a fanlight and with Tuscan surround with keyed archivolts; above, wrought-iron railing to balcony formed by recessed bays with linked round-arched 4-pane windows below fanlights with keyed architraves and blind central light. Flanking wings have giant order of corner pilasters with acanthus-leaf capitals disconnected from pediments; ground-floor canted bay windows with blocking courses above cornices, first-floor windows have moulded sills to casements. End bays are considerably set back, and have outer pilasters and on ground floor, French window with leaved round-arched lights with marginal panes, and on first floor a 4-pane sash window. Outer returns of projecting wings: tall and narrow round-arched staircase window with marginal panes. Rear: hipped ends to roof. Central ridge stack and eaves stacks to outer sides of wings (now the front to Camp Mount); painted artificial stone; single- storey kitchen wings with pitched roofs project as pavilions. Main range has, to ground floor of each house, a 4-panel door below overlight flanked by windows, casements to left and sashes with glazing bars to right, and first-floor casements, of 6 panes to left and 4 panes with leaded lights to right, all in artificial stone surrounds; 2 dormer windows. Left return: ground-floor window of 2 lights with round heads and marginal panes; first-floor casement window. Right return: ground- floor French window with round-arched leaves and marginal panes; 4-pane casement window on first floor.

Listing NGR: SE4499621989