| Description | Late 19th century bus shelter. Timber framed and planked, with a pyramidal slate roof, sprocketed, with two terracotta finials, and flat topped louvres. Console shaped brackets to eaves. Moulded panels up to dado height. Above this depressed arched openings with moulded spandrels and keyblocks, each with tiny pediment. Entrance has shaped lintel and pedimented gable just above eaves level, taken on extra large consoles.
(Text edited from English Heritage's National Heritage List of England, 1977)
By 2013 the bus shelter has begun to fall into disrepair. The Heritage and Support statement written to accompany the proposals for repair and refurbishment to the shelter notes that ' the shelter is predominantly of timber construction, painted in old Huddersfield Corporation colours of vermillion and cream, and built over stone supporting walls with a natural slate roof incorporating louvered vents...it is presently in poor condition with sigificant lelvels of rotten timber throughout and eveidence of structural movement as a result. The roof, though, appearing in satisfactory condition, is currently missing sections of gutters and down pipes which are contributing to the further deterioration of the building fabric.' (Aedas, 2013) |