Listed buildings in Warmfield cum Heath

Warmfield cum Heath is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 57 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, six are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, six are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the settlements of Warmfield, Heath, Kirkthorpe, Goosehill, and the surrounding countryside. The major building in the parish is Heath Hall, a country house, which is listed together with associated buildings and structures. Most of the other listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures. The rest of the listed buildings include a church and a group of grave slabs in the churchyard, a block of former almshouses, a water tower, farmhouses and farm buildings, a public house, former schools and a master's house, a set of stocks, two well covers, a boathouse, a weir and sluice gates on the River Calder, and a telephone kiosk.

Key

Buildings

Name and location	Photograph	Date	Notes	Grade
St Peter's Church, Kirkthorpe 53°41′02″N 1°27′16″W / 53.68402°N 1.45432°W / 53.68402; -1.45432 (St Peter's Church, Kirkthorpe)		14th century	The oldest part of the church is the tower, the rest of the church, which was largely rebuilt in 1850–51, is embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles.[2][3]	II*
Sycamore Cottage 53°41′01″N 1°27′18″W / 53.68373°N 1.45505°W / 53.68373; -1.45505 (Sycamore Cottage)		Mid 16th century	A lintels.[4]	II
Old Hall Cottages 53°40′37″N 1°28′07″W / 53.67691°N 1.46861°W / 53.67691; -1.46861 (Old Hall Cottages)	—	Late 16th century	A farm building associated with Heath Old Hall, later altered and converted into three cottages. The cottages are in Tudor arched doorway, and in the right return is a three-light mullioned window.[5]	II
Frieston's Hospital 53°41′00″N 1°27′19″W / 53.68333°N 1.45531°W / 53.68333; -1.45531 (Frieston's Hospital)		1595	A block of almshouses, later a private dwelling, the building is in gritstone, with a chamfered eaves band, and a stone slate roof. It consists of a square hall, with aisles on three sides under lean-to roofs, surmounted on the three aisled sides by dormers with coped gables and finials. The doorway has a chamfered surround and composite jambs, the windows in the dormers are mullioned and transomed, and elsewhere they are mullioned.[6][7]	I
King's Arms Cottages 53°40′30″N 1°27′44″W / 53.67489°N 1.46221°W / 53.67489; -1.46221 (King's Arms Cottages)		Early 17th century	A row of cottages later altered and combined, the building is in stone with lintels, and the windows are sliding sashes. The right bay contains a doorway with tie-stone jambs and a dated and initialled shallow-arched lintel, and three-light mullioned windows.[8]	II
Dame Mary Bolle's Water Tower 53°40′30″N 1°28′07″W / 53.67510°N 1.46860°W / 53.67510; -1.46860 (Dame Mary Bolle's Water Tower)		Mid 17th century	The tower is built over a water spring, and is in Tudor arched doorway with a chamfered surround and composite jambs, the right jamb is dated, and there is a similar doorway in the east face. Elsewhere, there are windows and vents. Below the west entrance are the remains of a cast iron waterwheel and an overflow channel.[9][10]	II*
Barn and outbuildings, Heath Hall Farm 53°40′42″N 1°27′43″W / 53.67821°N 1.46202°W / 53.67821; -1.46202 (Barn and outbuildings, Heath Hall Farm)		17th century	The farm buildings, which were later extended, are in stone with some brick, and the roofs are in stone and stone slate. There are two storeys, and the buildings form a U-shaped plan. The barn has two ranges of seven and one of nine bays, the outbuildings incorporate a dovecote, and part of the barn has been converted for residential use. The openings include cart entries, doorways, windows, and vents, and there are external steps leading to upper floor doorways.[11]	II
Heath House 53°40′36″N 1°27′57″W / 53.67661°N 1.46592°W / 53.67661; -1.46592 (Heath House)		Mid 17th century	A hipped roof of Welsh slate and lead, and the front is in Palladian style. There are two storeys, attics and cellars, and a front of five bays. Flanking the middle three bays are attached giant Ionic columns carrying a pediment, and on the corners are paired pilasters. In the centre of the basement is a round-arched doorway and to the left is a later bay window, In the ground floor, the middle window has a segmental pediment on consoles, and the windows in the outer bays have architraves and triangular pediments. At the rear are projecting cross-wings and the windows have been altered to sashes.[12][13]	II*
Wall and gate pier, Heath House 53°40′35″N 1°27′57″W / 53.67640°N 1.46592°W / 53.67640; -1.46592 (Wall and gate pier, Heath House)		Mid 17th century (probable)	The wall is in stone with an inner lining of brick, and is attached to the southwest of the house. It has stone moulded cornice.[14]	II
The Priest's House 53°40′34″N 1°27′57″W / 53.67622°N 1.46596°W / 53.67622; -1.46596 (The Priest's House)		Mid to late 17th century	The house is in lintel with sunk spandrels. The windows have been altered, and there is a continuous hood mould above the ground floor openings, stepped over the doorway.[15]	II
Kings Arms 53°40′29″N 1°27′43″W / 53.67474°N 1.46202°W / 53.67474; -1.46202 (Kings Arms)		c. 1660	The public house was created in about 1841, with the combination of older cottages and an 18th-century barn or coach house. It is in stone with Tudor arched lintel.[9][16]	II
The Old School House 53°40′32″N 1°27′35″W / 53.67563°N 1.45962°W / 53.67563; -1.45962 (The Old School House)		c. 1660	The master's house was added in about 1761, and the building has since been converted into a private house. It is in lintels.[17]	II
Marsh Close 53°40′33″N 1°27′36″W / 53.67582°N 1.45989°W / 53.67582; -1.45989 (Marsh Close)		1665	A stone house with a continuous Tudor arch and spandrels. The windows on the front have double-chamfered surrounds. At the rear is a doorway with monolithic jambs, and a mullioned window.[18]	II
Little Sycamore, Sycamore House and Sycamore Cottage 53°40′31″N 1°27′48″W / 53.67522°N 1.46327°W / 53.67522; -1.46327 (Little Sycamore, Sycamore House and Sycamore Cottage)		Late 17th century	A row of three cottages in stone and orange-red brick, with lintel, and mullioned windows. In the centre, Sycamore House has two bays, a central doorway with an architrave, a fanlight, a frieze, and a cornice, and a trellised porch. Flanking it are two-storey bay windows, with four-light mullioned windows. Sycamore Cottage on the right has two bays and a rear outshut, and it contains a doorway with a chamfered surround and tie-stone jambs.[19]	II
Heath Hall 53°40′37″N 1°27′47″W / 53.67691°N 1.46308°W / 53.67691; -1.46308 (Heath Hall)		c. 1709	A large quoins, and there is a central doorway with a cornice on consoles. Attached on the left is a single-storey former billiards room.[20][21]	I
1 and 2 Horse Race End 53°40′15″N 1°27′20″W / 53.67071°N 1.45569°W / 53.67071; -1.45569 (1 and 2 Horse Race End)	—	Early 18th century	A pair of mirror-image cottages in Tudor arches. The windows have plain surrounds.[22]	II
Briar and Vine Cottage 53°40′33″N 1°27′38″W / 53.67577°N 1.46049°W / 53.67577; -1.46049 (Briar and Vine Cottage)		Early 18th century	A pair of cottages, later combined, in stone, with a roof of stone slate and pantile. There are two storeys, two bays, and a single-storey rear outshut. The windows are casements, and one of the original doors has been blocked.[23]	II
Stable and barn, Heath Hall 53°40′39″N 1°27′49″W / 53.67763°N 1.46366°W / 53.67763; -1.46366 (Stable and barn, Heath Hall)		Early 18th century} (probable)	The stable and barn are in stone and brick, with quoins, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are two storeys, and a long range of nine bays. The openings include doorways with monolithic jambs, segmental-arched cart entrances, one with a chamfered surround, composite jambs, and voussoirs, and square windows.[24]	II*
Cartshed and granary, Heath Hall Farm 53°40′40″N 1°27′43″W / 53.67784°N 1.46197°W / 53.67784; -1.46197 (Cartshed and granary, Heath Hall Farm)	—	Early 18th century	The cartshed with a quoins, and a stone slate roof with coped gables and kneelers. There are two storeys and five bays. On the front are paired basket-arched cart entries with composite jambs and voussoirs. In the left return is a two-light mullioned window, and in the right return is an upper floor doorway with composite jambs.[25]	II
The Blacksmith's Cottage 53°40′30″N 1°27′50″W / 53.67493°N 1.46390°W / 53.67493; -1.46390 (The Blacksmith's Cottage)		Early 18th century	The house, which was extended to the rear in the 19th century, is in stone with lintel, and the windows have been altered.[26]	II
Beech Lawn 53°40′31″N 1°27′34″W / 53.67516°N 1.45937°W / 53.67516; -1.45937 (Beech Lawn)		Early to mid 18th century	A house that was extended in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is in stone with some brick, and pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment. Flanking it are two-storey canted bay windows, and there are single-storey bay windows in the outer bays. Most of the other windows are sashes. At the rear is a doorway with monolithic jambs, and a conservatory.[27]	II
Deershed, Heath Hall 53°40′47″N 1°27′40″W / 53.67976°N 1.46109°W / 53.67976; -1.46109 (Deershed, Heath Hall)		Early to mid 18th century	The deer shelter in the grounds of the hall is in moulded cornice, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of five bays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment gable containing a round hole in the tympanum. In each bay is a semicircular-arched doorway with a moulded surround, an impost band, and a false vermiculated triple keystone. In the upper floor is a central blind Diocletian window, and the other windows are also blind.[9][28]	II*
Gate piers, Marsh House 53°40′33″N 1°27′37″W / 53.67589°N 1.46022°W / 53.67589; -1.46022 (Gate piers, Marsh House)	—	Early to mid 18th century	The gate moulded cornice and a hollow chamfered cap.[29]	II
Cobbler's Hall and Heath Post Office 53°40′30″N 1°27′50″W / 53.67505°N 1.46398°W / 53.67505; -1.46398 (Cobbler's Hall and Heath Post Office)		c.1740	Originally a school, later divided into dwellings, it is in stone with moulded cornice. The windows are sashes, and at the rear is a tall stair window.[30]	II
The Dower House 53°40′34″N 1°27′43″W / 53.67609°N 1.46206°W / 53.67609; -1.46206 (The Dower House)		c.1740	The house, which was extended in the 19th century, is in stone on a pulvinated frieze, and a moulded cornice on carved consoles. The windows are sashes with architraves. At the rear is a central arched stair window with a keystone.[9][31]	II*
Gate piers, gates and overthrow, Dower House 53°40′34″N 1°27′42″W / 53.67600°N 1.46178°W / 53.67600; -1.46178 (Gate piers, gates and overthrow, Dower House)		Mid 18th century	The stone gate moulded cornice surmounted by a wrought iron heart-shaped finial. The gates are in wrought iron, and above them is a decorative overthrow.[9][32]	II
Ha-ha and gate piers, Dower House 53°40′33″N 1°27′44″W / 53.67591°N 1.46225°W / 53.67591; -1.46225 (Ha-ha and gate piers, Dower House)		Mid 18th century	The ha-ha to the south of the house is in stone, and has spiked metal straps on the corners. The gate piers are in stone and have domed caps. Attached to the eastern piers is a short length of decorative wrought iron fence.[9][33]	II
Sundial, Dower House 53°40′33″N 1°27′44″W / 53.67597°N 1.46219°W / 53.67597; -1.46219 (Sundial, Dower House)		Mid 18th century	The sundial in the lawn in front of the house is in stone. It has a square base, a carved console on each side, a frieze decorated with egg-and-dart ornament, and notched corners. On the top is a circular recess for a dial plate.[34]	II
Ha-ha to the east of Heath Hall 53°40′39″N 1°27′40″W / 53.67744°N 1.46102°W / 53.67744; -1.46102 (Ha-ha to the east of Heath Hall)	—	Mid 18th century	The ha-ha to the east of the hall has a serpentine shape. It is in stone and has rectangular square coping.[35]	II
Ha-ha, Heath House 53°40′35″N 1°27′55″W / 53.67634°N 1.46540°W / 53.67634; -1.46540 (Ha-ha, Heath House)		Mid 18th century	The ha-ha is in stone with projecting coping, and has short sections of railings. It contains square gate piers that have tapering finials, and there are cast iron double gates.[36]	II
Gate piers, gates and wall, Heath Old Hall 53°40′34″N 1°27′58″W / 53.67612°N 1.46600°W / 53.67612; -1.46600 (Gate piers, gates and wall, Heath Old Hall)		18th century	The gate moulded cornice with a large pineapple finial. The flanking walls are coped and ramped up to the piers, and have large carved brackets, and the gates are in cast iron.[37][38]	II
Stocks 53°40′59″N 1°27′16″W / 53.68312°N 1.45457°W / 53.68312; -1.45457 (Stocks)		Mid 18th century (probable)	The stocks are by the roadside near a junction, and are in stone with a wooden seat and keepers. There are two roughly-squared piers with carved tops, rusticated panels on the outside, and deep rebates for the keepers inside. The keepers have four holes and a padlock, and to the rear are two smaller piers and a seat.[39]	II
Well cover 53°40′53″N 1°27′19″W / 53.68133°N 1.45516°W / 53.68133; -1.45516 (Well cover)	—	18th century	The well cover has a wall containing an arched doorway with a wooden door. The wall is in stone with moulded coping.[40]	II
Brewhouse and East Pavilion, Heath Hall 53°40′36″N 1°27′46″W / 53.67669°N 1.46265°W / 53.67669; -1.46265 (Brewhouse and East Pavilion, Heath Hall)		c. 1753	Originally a brewhouse and laundry for the hall, later converted for residential use, the building was designed by quoins, sill bands, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are two storeys and an H-shaped plan, with symmetrical fronts of seven and five bays. The middle three bays project, and contain a semicircular-arched entrance with a massive parabolic-arched vault, and a dentilled pedimented gable. On the roof is a clock tower with engaged Tuscan columns, circular recesses for clock faces with an arched cornice, and a circular open rotunda with a bell-shaped cap and a ball finial. In the outer bays are recessed archways, and the windows are sashes.[20][41]	I
The West Pavilion, Heath Hall 53°40′38″N 1°27′48″W / 53.67720°N 1.46332°W / 53.67720; -1.46332 (The West Pavilion, Heath Hall)	—	c. 1753	Originally stables with accommodation above and later converted for residential use, the building was designed by weathervane. In the outer bays are recessed archways, and the windows are sashes.[20][42]	I
The Stable House, Heath Hall 53°40′39″N 1°27′48″W / 53.67749°N 1.46336°W / 53.67749; -1.46336 (The Stable House, Heath Hall)		c. 1754	The stables and flanking coach houses were designed by hipped roof. The middle and outer bays project, and contain archivolted arched recesses. The central doorway has an architrave and a triangular pediment, and the windows are sashes. The coach houses have pedimented gables, and contain archivolted carriage entrances, and the low linking walls have doorways with tie-stone jambs.[43][44]	I
Ha-ha, gate piers and wall, Beech Lawn 53°40′30″N 1°27′32″W / 53.67492°N 1.45898°W / 53.67492; -1.45898 (Ha-ha, gate piers and wall, Beech Lawn)		Mid to late 18th century	The ha-ha walls are in stone, with coping, and cast iron railings, and form a circular island three-quarters round the house. To the east and west are monolithic gate piers with pyramidal caps and the remains of railings. The garden is rectangular and enclosed on three sides by stone walls with ramped coping that contain two seats with segmental-arched hoods.[45]	II
Heath Farm Cottage 53°40′36″N 1°27′53″W / 53.67677°N 1.46476°W / 53.67677; -1.46476 (Heath Farm Cottage)		Mid to late 18th century	A house in stone with lintel.[46]	II
Ha-ha and gate piers, Heath Hall 53°40′36″N 1°27′49″W / 53.67663°N 1.46361°W / 53.67663; -1.46361 (Ha-ha and gate piers, Heath Hall)		Mid to late 18th century	The plinths, and have banded stonework. Each pier has a Roman Doric frieze decorated with triglyphs and guttae, and a cornice surmounted by a cap with Greek-key ornament.[47]	II
Wall to rear of Stable House, Heath Hall 53°40′39″N 1°27′47″W / 53.67760°N 1.46307°W / 53.67760; -1.46307 (Wall to rear of Stable House, Heath Hall)	—	Mid to late 18th century	The garden wall is in orange-red brick with stone coping. The wall is thick, it extends for about 100 metres (330 ft), and contains flues and a metal control. In the wall is a doorway with a flat arch.[48]	II
Wall, cottage and shelters, Heath Hall Farm 53°40′43″N 1°27′45″W / 53.67853°N 1.46250°W / 53.67853; -1.46250 (Wall, cottage and shelters, Heath Hall Farm)		Mid to late 18th century	The wall encloses the walled garden on three sides, it is in stone with quoins, an impost and a sill band, and a coped gable. There are two storeys and two bays. In the ground floor are two semicircular-arched doorways separated by a rusticated pier, and above are two Diocletian windows, and a blind oculus in the gable apex. The cart sheds or cattle shelters are in stone and brick, with roofs of stone slate and asbestos, and have 13 bays separated by square piers.[49]	II
Walls and gate piers, west front of Heath Hall 53°40′36″N 1°27′46″W / 53.67668°N 1.46290°W / 53.67668; -1.46290 (Walls and gate piers, west front of Heath Hall)	—	c. 1767	The screen walls extend from the west front of the hall to the East and West Pavilions. The walls are in stone and are moulded recess containing a circle, and a cornice with an urn in Bath stone, decorated with fleurons.[50]	I
Boat house, Half Moon Lake 53°40′57″N 1°27′32″W / 53.68257°N 1.45895°W / 53.68257; -1.45895 (Boat house, Half Moon Lake)		Late 18th century (probable)	The boat house is in stone, and has an entrance with a pointed arch and a keystone. Flanking the arch are low square piers with large projecting coping at the level of the impost band. The roof is vaulted.[51]	II
Moorhouse 53°40′30″N 1°27′42″W / 53.67509°N 1.46158°W / 53.67509; -1.46158 (Moorhouse)		Late 18th century	A house and cottage, later combined, the house dates from about 1800, and there is a 20th-century rear extension. The building is in stone, with roofs of stone slate and Welsh blue quoins, three bays, and a doorway with a plain surround. At the rear is a later single-storey wing.[52]	II
The Whittling Well 53°40′21″N 1°27′47″W / 53.67250°N 1.46315°W / 53.67250; -1.46315 (The Whittling Well)		Late 18th century	The well head and cover are in stone. The cover consists of a semi-elliptical arch with voussoirs and a dropped keystone, and the trough has a canted front. It is flanked by short walls with banded rustication, and ends in low piers.[53]	II
Kirkthorpe Hall 53°41′04″N 1°27′15″W / 53.68452°N 1.45423°W / 53.68452; -1.45423 (Kirkthorpe Hall)		c. 1780	A vicarage that was extended in about 1872, and later a private house, it is in stone, on a quoins, and a hipped stone slate roof to the original part and a Welsh blue slate roof to the extension. There are two storeys, the original part has a symmetrical front of three bays, to the right is a single-storey three-bay extension, and beyond that is a recessed two-storey three-bay range. In the original part is a central doorway converted into a window that has monolithic jambs and a cornice on consoles, and the outer bays contain two-storey canted bay windows. To the right is an inserted doorway with pilasters, a frieze, a fanlight, and a cornice.[54]	II
Boat Yard House 53°40′12″N 1°28′04″W / 53.67003°N 1.46787°W / 53.67003; -1.46787 (Boat Yard House)	—	c. 1800	An inn, later a private house, it is in stone with a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, a double-depth plan, two lintel with a painted inscription, and the windows are casements with deep lintels and sills.[55]	II
Gate piers, walls and railings, Newhall Lodge 53°41′22″N 1°26′12″W / 53.68958°N 1.43668°W / 53.68958; -1.43668 (Gate piers, walls and railings, Newhall Lodgee)	—	c. 1800	At the entrance to the drive are two pairs of stone gate piers, with a triangular pediment on each face. From these quadrant coped walls lead to similar piers. The railings and the gates are in cast iron with arrow-head finials.[56]	II
Nine grave slabs 53°41′03″N 1°27′15″W / 53.68404°N 1.45404°W / 53.68404; -1.45404 (Nine grave slabs)		c. 1814	The nine grave tablets are in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, to the east of the church. They are to the memory of Benedictine nuns who lived at Heath Old Hall. The tablets are in stone, they are rectangular with curved corners, and have inscriptions and carved Maltese crosses.[57]	II
Cross Hills Farmhouse 53°41′08″N 1°26′11″W / 53.68546°N 1.43650°W / 53.68546; -1.43650 (Cross Hills Farmhouse)	—	Early 19th century	The farmhouse is in orange-red brick with stone at the rear, and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and a rear outshut. The doorways and the windows, which are sashes, have segmental-arched heads.[58]	II
Kirkthorpe Weir and sluice gates 53°41′12″N 1°27′35″W / 53.68654°N 1.45961°W / 53.68654; -1.45961 (Kirkthorpe Weir and sluice gates)		Early 19th century (probable)	The weir across the River Calder is in stone, it forms a segmental curve, and has curved retaining walls and steps. The sluice is in cast iron, and dated 1827. There are three sluices divided by six giant buttresses, with pointed-arched cutwaters to the south. The two original sluice gates have circular winding gear and a large cog wheel.[59]	II
The Keepers 53°40′47″N 1°27′18″W / 53.67981°N 1.45504°W / 53.67981; -1.45504 (The Keepers)		Early 19th century (probable)	A keeper's cottage, later a private house, it is in stone with oversailing eaves and a hipped stone slate roof. There is a single storey, and fronts of three and two bays. The doorway and windows have semicircular-arched heads.[60]	II
The Kennels at the Keepers 53°40′47″N 1°27′17″W / 53.67975°N 1.45476°W / 53.67975; -1.45476 (The Kennels at the Keepers)	—	Early 19th century	The kennels are in stone with a stone slate roof and a single storey. They contain doorways, some with semicircular-arched heads, and others with lintels.[61]	II
Stable Block, Beech Lawn 53°40′32″N 1°27′34″W / 53.67558°N 1.45931°W / 53.67558; -1.45931 (Stable Block, Beech Lawn)	—	c. 1830	The stable block to the north of the house is in stone with lintel.[62]	II
Newhall Lodge 53°41′23″N 1°26′13″W / 53.68961°N 1.43697°W / 53.68961; -1.43697 (Newhall Lodge)		Early to mid 19th century	The lodge is in stone on a plinth, with oversailing eaves, and a hipped stone slate roof. There is a single storey, and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has Tuscan pilasters and a pediment, and the windows are sashes. There is a later extension to the rear with a roof of blue slate.[63]	II
Mounting block, Beech Lawn 53°40′32″N 1°27′33″W / 53.67546°N 1.45921°W / 53.67546; -1.45921 (Mounting block, Beech Lawn)	—	Mid to late 19th century (probable)	The mounting block is against a wall in the yard to the north of the house. It is in freestone, and consists of a single block with four cut steps.[64]	II
Telephone kiosk 53°40′31″N 1°27′50″W / 53.67522°N 1.46385°W / 53.67522; -1.46385 (Telephone kiosk)		1935	The telephone kiosk is outside the former post office. It is of the K6 type designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[65]	II

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