LITTLE PRESTON HALL

LITTLE PRESTON HALL, HALL LANE LS26

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264132
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: LITTLE PRESTON HALL
Statutory Address:: LITTLE PRESTON HALL, HALL LANE LS26

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264132
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: LITTLE PRESTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE PRESTON HALL, HALL LANE LS26

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE PRESTON HALL, HALL LANE LS26

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Great and Little Preston
National Grid Reference:: SE 38848 30128

Details

SE 33 SE GREAT AND LITTLE PRESTON HALL LANE LS26 (east side)

2/17 Little Preston Hall

GV II

Large house, now flats. Probably early C18 (worn datestone at rear said to have been lettered 1736); altered in C19. Squared magnesian limestone brought to courses, slate roof, chimneys heightened in brick. Rectangular double-pile plan, three storeys and 7 bays, symmetrical; moulded string courses on 2 levels; in the centre an altered doorway beneath an original moulded cornice with raised medallion in the centre; windows sashed without glazing bars, in raised C19 surrounds, except in the outer bays at ground floor, where they have been replaced with C19 tripartite rectangular bay windows. Large external chimney stacks at both gable walls; moulded eaves cornice, stone gable copings with kneelers, and a ridge chimney off centre to the left. Rear has inter alia a short single-storey extension or porch with a moulded doorway over which is a worn coat of arms in a rectangular panel.

Interior: altered, but contains doglegged staircase with closed string, turned balusters, square newels, and broad handrail ramped at the half landings.

Listing NGR: SE3884830128

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 428657
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.