| Description | Denby Lane Crescent, Grange Moor, Upper Whitley. 1920s council houses.
Denby Lane Crescent was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn in 1982 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Workers' Housing Survey. The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'Two storey terrace: council.
This group consists of six blocks of houses four in each block, built in a horseshoe, which is open to the south. They were built by the council, after South View Grange [see PRN 12842], which was first let in 1926; so are late 1920s/early 1930s. The houses are two storeyed.
The houses are stone, with thin slate roofs. The windows are sash, with stone surrounds, the jambs interrupted. The chimney stacks are stone, each having two flues.
Entry is at the front and back. Downstairs is a heated living room which would have been the cooking area; and a scullery with pantry. Each house had a coal cupboard projecting from the scullery, with a door to it from the scullery. Upstairs are three bedrooms one very small (a box room). The main, front bedroom (over living room) was heated.
Each house had a front and rear garden. The centre of the horseshoe is now (and was) allotments (though without dividing walls). There is some sort of stone shaft in the centre of the unbuilt up side of the horseshoe'.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. 'Denby Lane Crescent, Grange Moor, Nr Wakefield. Upper Whitley'). |