Morley Hall
MORLEY HALL, DAWSON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135105
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Morley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MORLEY HALL, DAWSON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135105
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Morley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORLEY HALL, DAWSON HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MORLEY HALL, DAWSON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Morley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 26225 28114
Details
SE2628 SW LS27 DAWSON HILL MORLEY 7/20 Morley Hall 14.5.73 GV II
House. Dated 1683 but mainly with early C19 fenestration and with later C19 alterations and additions to rear. Large well-coursed dressed stone, Welsh blue-slate roof. 2 storeys. Appears originally to have been of 3-room plan with hall-and-crosswing and gable-entry doorway dated 1683. 1st cell has added full height canted bay with band and embattled parapet and 15-pane sash with plain-stone surround to each face and floor. Central cell has semicircular-arched stairwindow with voussoirs and raised keystone to left of doorway in shallow porch with monolithic jambs and lintel and cyma-moulded cornice and sash window above. Right wing breaks forward slightly and has quoins and canted bay-window with small-paned sash to each face, cornice and blocking course. 2 sash windows above. Coped gable with kneelers and one ball finial. Coped gable to left. Lateral stack (brick) to rear of 1st cell, ashlar ridge-stack at junction with wing. Large lateral stack to right-hand return of wing. Left-hand return has C17 doorway with composite jambs dated lintel and cyma-moulded surround to left of single sash to 1st cell with same above. To left of door long added range at right angles to front range has 2 projecting full height rectangular bays with mullioned windows and embattled parapet. Coped gables, one ridge stack to this range.
Attached to front is plaque inscribed:
" Built in 1683 by Thomas Dawson whose Grand-Daughter married Lord Loughborough (Lord Chancellor of England) The residence of Oliver and Alice Scatcherd from 1884-1906. "
Formerly the home of Sir William Overend Priestley (1829-1900) the distinguished physician.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE2622528114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341810
- 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.
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