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.
| Grade | Criteria | |
|---|---|---|
| I | Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important | |
| II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest | |
| II | Buildings of national importance and special interest |
| Name and location | Photograph | Date | Notes | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Peter's Church, Kirkthorpe 53.684°N -1.4543°W | The oldest part of the church is the tower, the rest of the church, which was largely rebuilt in 1850–51, is Perpendicular in style. It is built in stone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a north chapel, and a west tower. The tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, a west window, and a northeast stair turret. At the top are corner gargoyles, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. | |||
| Sycamore Cottage 53.6837°N -1.4551°W | A timber framed house that was extended and encased in stone in about 1690. It has quoins, a stone slate roof, two storeys, four bays, and a lean-to on the left. The doorways and the ground floor windows have monolithic lintels. | |||
| Old Hall Cottages 53.6769°N -1.4686°W | A farm building associated with Heath Old Hall, later altered and converted into three cottages. The cottages are in gritstone, with a continuous hood mould, and a stone slate roof with coped gables, kneelers and finials. There are two storeys and five bays. In the ground floor are inserted doorways and windows, and the upper floor contains windows with pointed-arched heads. At the rear is an original Tudor arched doorway, and in the right return is a three-light mullioned window. | |||
| Frieston's Hospital 53.6833°N -1.4553°W | 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. | ||
| King's Arms Cottages 53.6749°N -1.4622°W | A row of cottages later altered and combined, the building is in stone with quoins, partly in brick at the rear, with a timber framed arcade to an outshut, and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, a single-storey outshut at the rear, and an added brick bay to the right. In the left two bays are paired doorways with deep 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. | |||
| Dame Mary Bolle's Water Tower 53.6751°N -1.4686°W | The tower is built over a water spring, and is in gritstone, with quoins, bands, and a pyramidal stone slate roof. There are five stages and a square plan. In the west face is a plinth broken by a 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. | |||
| Barn and outbuildings, Heath Hall Farm 53.6782°N -1.462°W | 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. | |||
| Heath House 53.6766°N -1.4659°W | A county house, it was extended and refronted in 1744–45 by James Paine. The house is in stone on a plinth, the basement is rusticated, it has 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. | |||
| Wall and gate pier, Heath House 53.6764°N -1.4659°W | The wall is in stone with an inner lining of brick, and is attached to the southwest of the house. It has stone coping, and is ramped down away from the house. The wall ends in a stone gate pier that has a projecting band, and a moulded cornice. | |||
| The Priest's House 53.6762°N -1.466°W | The house is in rendered stone with a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, a double-depth plan, and two bays. The central doorway has a chamfered surround, and a Tudor arched 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. | |||
| Kings Arms 53.6747°N -1.462°W | 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 quoins, brick at the rear, and a stone slate roof with coped gables and kneelers. The former cottages to the right have two storeys and three bays, and contain a doorway with a chamfered surround, composite jambs, and a basket-arched lintel, and sash windows. The former barn to the left has three bays, the middle bay gabled, and containing a former segmental-arched cart entry with a pitching hole above. At the rear is a doorway with a chamfered surround, composite jambs, and a Tudor arched lintel. | |||
| The Old School House 53.6756°N -1.4596°W | The master's house was added in about 1761, and the building has since been converted into a private house. It is in gritstone with quoins and a stone slate roof. The school has a single storey and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a chamfered surround, double tie-stone jambs, and a Tudor arched lintel, flanked by mullioned and transomed windows. The master's house has two storeys, and contains a doorway and windows with monolithic lintels. | |||
| Marsh Close 53.6758°N -1.4599°W | 1665 | A stone house with a continuous hood mould stepped over the doorway, and a Welsh blue slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway has a chamfered surround, composite jambs, and a dated and initialled lintel with a depressed 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. | ||
| Little Sycamore, Sycamore House and Sycamore Cottage 53.6752°N -1.4633°W | A row of three cottages in stone and orange-red brick, with quoins, stone slate roofs, and two storeys. Little Sycamore, on the left, has a rear wing, two bays, a doorway with a monolithic 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. | |||
| Heath Hall 53.6769°N -1.4631°W | A large country house, it was remodelled by John Carr in 1754–80, and additions were made in 1837–45 by Anthony Salvin. The house is in stone and has two storeys, attics and cellars, and a symmetrical front of eleven bays. In the middle are four giant Ionic columns carrying a pediment containing an achievement in the tympanum. The central doorway has a porch with consoles and an open pediment. The windows in the middle five bays have architraves and cornices, and the three outer bays at each end are canted. These bays have balustraded parapets, as do the attics. At the rear the middle three bays project and have quoins, and there is a central doorway with a cornice on consoles. Attached on the left is a single-storey former billiards room. | |||
| 1 and 2 Horse Race End 53.6707°N -1.4557°W | A pair of mirror-image cottages in gritstone, No. 1 has a stone slate roof, No. 2 has a pantile roof, the gables are coped, and on the right are kneelers. There are two storeys, each cottage has two bays, and at the rear is a later lean-to brick outshut. The doorways in the outer bays have chamfered surrounds, composite jambs, and lintels with depressed Tudor arches. The windows have plain surrounds. | |||
| Briar and Vine Cottage 53.6758°N -1.4605°W | 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. | |||
| Stable and barn, Heath Hall 53.6776°N -1.4637°W |