Cleckheaton is a town and an unparished area in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Cleckheaton ward contains 31 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. In addition to the town of Cleckheaton, the ward contains the smaller settlements of Hightown, Hunsworth, Oakenshaw, and Scholes. The listed buildings include houses and cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, churches, chapels and associated structures, public houses, a market cross, a warehouse, a bank, a town hall, a library, a viaduct, a former post office, and a war memorial.
A barn converted into two houses in 1989, it has a timber framed core clad in stone, and a stone slate roof. The gabled front faces the road, there are three bays, and a continuous outshut along the entrance front. The building contains doorways, and mullioned and single-light windows.[2]
A row of houses and a converted barn, in stone with a stone slate roof and two storeys. There are two doorways, one dated 1631, and the other with a moulded arched lintel dated 1638. The windows are mullioned, with some mullions removed.[3]
The barn has a timber framed core, it was later encased in stone, and has a stone slate roof. There are five bays and an outshut, and the barn contains an elliptical-arched doorway.[4]
A group of farmhouses in two blocks at right angles, the later block dating from the 18th century. They are in stone with quoins, and have stone slate roofs with copedgables and cut kneelers, and two storeys. The windows are chamfered, most are mullioned and there is one sash window.[5]
A stone house on a plinth, that has a stone slate roof with chamferedcopings on the right. There are two storeys, a main range, and a gabled cross-wing on the left with a buttress between. The doorway has a chamfered surround and a triangular lintel with a datestone above. Most of the windows are mullioned with hood moulds, and there is a twelve-light mullioned and transomed window in the ground floor.[6]
A large farmhouse in stone with quoins, and a stone slate roof with copedgables on cut kneelers. There are two storeys, and an L-shaped plan, with a wing and outshut to the rear. The doorway has an initialled and dated lintel with a cambered arch. There is a round-headed fire window, and the other windows are mullioned. Over the ground floor openings is a continuous hood mould.[7]
A house with a cottage recessed to the left and a rear outshut. The building is in rendered stone, with a tile roof and two storeys. The house has a central doorway with a deep inscribed and dated lintel, and mullioned windows with some mullions removed. The cottage has a porch and at the rear is a round-headed fire window.[8]
A house, later divided, in stone, partly rendered, with quoins, a string course, and a stone slate roof with chamferedgablecopings and moulded kneelers. There are two storeys, three bays, and a rear outshut. Near the centre is a doorway with a chamfered surround and an arched lintel. The windows are double chamfered and mullioned with most mullions removed.[9]
The public house is in stone, with quoins, a stone slate roof, and two storeys. The near-central doorway has a chamfered surround and a hood mould, and the windows are mullioned, with four and five lights in the ground floor.[10]
The house, which was altered and extended in the 19th century, is in stone and has an irregular plan. The windows are mullioned, with up to seven lights, and the later windows also have transoms.[11]
A market cross in stone, consisting of a slender column with four colonnettes, and standing on a podium of four circular steps. On the top is an elaborate finial with a sundial on each face.[12][13]
The warehouse and former textile building are in sandstone with a stone slate roof. There are three storeys and four bays, and a two-storey projection to the east under a catslide roof. The doors have jambs with tie-stones, the windows are mullioned, and there are three taking-in doors with a crane above.[14]
A stone barn with quoins, an eaves band, and a stone slate roof with copedgables and moulded kneelers. On each side is an elliptically headed cart entry with a keystone and an impost block, and smaller doorways. There are blocked ventilation slits on each face.[15]
A stone farmhouse with rusticatedquoins, sill bands, and a stone slate roof with copedgables. There are two storeys, and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has a small cornice, above it is a single-light window, at the rear is a staircase window, and the other windows are mullioned.[16]
The church was restored by William Henry Howorth in 1887–88, and altered later. It consists of a nave and a chancel as one unit, and a south porch. At the west end is a corbelled-out polygonal bellcote with a short spire and a finial. The windows are lancets with Y-tracery.[17][18]
A terrace of three cottages in stone with quoins, and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys and lean-to extensions. The doorways and some windows have been altered, and the other windows are mullioned.[19]
A stone house with a stone slate roof, two storeys and two bays. The doorway is near the centre, and in each floor are two three-light mullioned windows.[22]
A large stone house with a band, a mouldedeavescornice and blocking course, rising to form a parapet with three urns, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of five bays, the middle three bays projecting, and two recessed two-storey, one-bay wings. Five steps lead up to a central doorway with a semicircular fanlight, an entablature and a pediment, and the windows are sashes.[23]
The hotel, then a public house, was later extended. It is in stone with quoins in the earlier part, and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, both parts with a double pile. On the front are three bays, with a central doorway and sash windows. The extension has six bays, and contains a large oculus, and a blocked carriage entrance.[24]
The chapel is in stone with a stone slate roof, and is in Classical style. On the front is a Dorictetrastyleportico with a pediment. In the centre is a round-arched double doorway with a archivolt and a keystone, and above are niches. Along the sides are Doric pilasters, round arched windows with archivolts, and a continuous sill band, and at the rear is a lean-to extension.[25][26]
The church, later used for other purposes, was designed by Lockwood and Mawson in Classical style. It is built in stone with a roof of blue slate, it has two storeys and a basement, a five-bay front, and nine bays along the sides. On the front is a portico consisting of vermiculatedquoins, a modillionedpediment, six giant unflutedCorinthian columns on a podium, arches with archivolts, and decorated keystones. Above is a vermiculated frieze and consoles carrying the pediment. In the tympanum is an inscribed roundel surrounded by carved foliage. There are three round-arched doorway with vermiculated surrounds and voussoirs. The outer bays are also arched and contain pedestals, and in the upper storey are round-arched windows with pilasters and archivolts. On each side is a bracketed eavescornice and windows, square-headed in the basement and ground storey and round-arched above. In front of the church are five squat square gate piers, each with a cornice and a square cap, and ornamental cast iron gates.[25][27]
The church is in Early English style, and built in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, a south aisle, a south porch, a chancel, a south vestry, and a northwest tower. The tower has two stages, angle buttresses, clock faces, octagonal pinnacles, an octagonal bell chamber, and a short spire. Most of the windows are lancets.[12][29]
The bank, later HSBC, was designed by William Henry Howorth, and is on a corner site. It is in stone, with a mouldedcornice between the floors, a moulded eaves cornice and blocking course, and a slate roof. There are four bays on Bradford Road, five on Pavement Street, and an angled bay on the corner. There is a doorway in the corner bay and on the two right bays on Pavement Street, each with an inscribed panel above. Between the ground floor windows are pilasters, and the windows in the upper floor have moulded architraves and scrolled pediments. On the roof are three dormers, each with a pediment, carving on the front and in the tympanum of the pediment, and a ball and stalk finial.[30][31]
The town hall is in stone with a slate roof, two storeys with attics at the front, and three storeys and basements on the sides. There are two bays in the centre, and flanking projecting gabled wings with ball and spike finials. The right bay has a clock tower, and steps flanked by a wall with ornamental piers, leading up to a round-headed doorway with pilasters and a carved frieze. There are clock faces on three sides, and above are round-arched dormer openings and a copper domed lantern. The left wing has a cantedmullioned and transomedoriel window over which is a balcony, and in the gable apex is a cartouche. The right bay has a shaped gable, and in the attic are two round-arched windows with a balcony on large console brackets.[25][32]
The former post office is in stone with a bracketed eavescornice and a stone slate roof and two storeys. There is a four-bay central range, flanked by slightly projecting wings, the left wider. In the ground floor of the central range are four arched openings, the second a doorway with a dentilled segmental pediment on fluted brackets. The other bays contain windows with hood moulds and keystones, and in the upper floor are paired windows with colonnettes. The left wing contains a doorway with a moulded swept head, an oculus above, and a window to the left with a keystone. Above is another window with a keystone, flanked by small lights, and at the top is an open segmental pediment. The right wing has a window with a keystone in both floors, and an open triangular pediment.[34][36]
The war memorial by George Frampton is in King Edward VII Memorial Park. It is in Portland stone, and consists of square base with a square column inscribed on two sides and with scrolls on the other sides. On the top are segmental pediments, and a sculpture of seated male and female figures carrying shields with lowered flags. Surrounding the memorial are octagonal walls with copper plaques inscribed with the names of those lost in the First World War.[34][37]
The public library, which was extended in 1973, is in stone on a chamferedplinth, with a mouldedeaves band, a copedparapet, and a slate roof. There is a single storey and a front of nine bays. The middle three bays form a projecting portico with Doric columns, and an entablature with a parapet and a central panel. The outer bays contain crosscasement windows. Above the central space is a glazed dome.[34][38]
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