Description

SK39NW
4/128

WORTLEY
WOODHEAD ROAD
(east side, off)
Carlton House

II

Large house. Early C19 with late C18 wing to rear. Deeply-coursed, dressed
sandstone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays with lower 3-bay wing to rear
left and additions in rear-right angle. Entrance front: 3 steps to central
double-door with margin-light glazing, 3-pane overlight and lintel tooled as
voussoirs. Other ground-floor bays have projecting sills to sashes with glazing
bars beneath similar lintels; unequally-hung 9-pane sashes to 1st floor. Gutter
brackets, hipped roof. Ashlar stacks to rear. Left return: wing has raised quoins,
and round-arched panel enclosing added bay-window beneath 4-pane sash. Tripartite
window beneath sash on left, French window beneath 4-pane sash on right. Brick end
stack on left, ridge stack to right.

Interior: glazed partition in hall has elliptical fanlight with radial glazing bars.
Front rooms with contemporary fireplaces, that on left with Adam-style plaster
decoration, on right with wooden Ionic columns. Contemporary friezes and ceiling
centre panels. Formerly home of the Dowager Countess of Wharncliffe; curate's
house until vicarage built in 1880. Attached dwelling to rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SK3117797901

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601474

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)