Description

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OSSETT
STORRS HILL ROAD
(west side, off), South Ossett
Ossett Grammar School formerly known as Park House.

II

Mill owner's house now part of school. 3rd quarter of C19. Ashlar. Welsh
slate roof. Two storeys and attic. Gothic style. An ordered near-
symmetrical T-plan comprising a 5-bay range with a 2-bay x 2-bay leg. Two
main entrances in the front side of the cross-range one on each side of the
leg, that to right, formerly in a porch now obscured by an incongruous
single-storey addition. The left one is deeply moulded and arched with a
small embattled cornice. Above this is an elaborate carved panel of foiled
circles. Windows are all mullioned and transomed and the upper tier of
lights have foiled heads. Some windows have a deep hoodmould, others have a
moulded cornice on ornamental brackets The leg of the T has 3-light
windows, those to ground-floor right side now under the addition. The end of
the T is of 2 gabled bays of 3-light windows except ground-floor left which
is a 5-light canted bay. Slender single lights in each gable apex. The ends
of the cross-range are also of 2 gabled bays the outer ones projecting
slightly further. Similar details, link to ground floor of left wing.
Staircase window to right wing. 5-bay symmetrical garden front, the centre
bay breaking forward and gabled with quatrefoil in apex. 6-light central
ground-floor square bay. 2-light lst-floor central window with cornice.
Other windows are 2-light with hoodmoulds. Ground floor left link to
additions none of which are included in item. Crenellated parapets, coped
gables, symmetrically-arranged ornamental ashlar stacks, some of which retain
the ashlar pots.
Interior: the hall has a tiled floor and a panelled ceiling of octagons and
squares. Hall fireplace with trippled colonnettes with foliated capitals
supporting a heavy canopy. Staircase of cusped, arched panels and a
balustrade pierced with quatrefoils. Quatrefoil newels with heavy gableted
and foliated ends. Stair arch, elaborately moulded on responds of 3
clustered colonnettes. Small stained glass panel in stair window with
hanging ram symbol of the woollen industry of the area. Arched doorways with
panelled reveals and spandrel decoration of foliage and flowers etc, all
different.
The house was owned by the Ellis family and became a school in 1906 (tablet
by left main entrance).

Listing NGR: SE2790819279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599680

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)