Ashley House
ASHLEY HOUSE, 44, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183589
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEY HOUSE, 44, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183589
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLEY HOUSE, 44, HIGH STREET
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:
- ASHLEY HOUSE, 44, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Boston Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 42323 45824
Details
SE 4245-4345 BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (south side)
6/38 No 44 (Ashley House) 30.3.66
GV II
House now offices. c1800 with later additions. Ashlar magnesian limestone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 1-storey, 1-bay side wings and 1- bay screen walls; parallel range to rear left with lean-to coach-house/stable against left return; raised wing to rear right. Plinth. Stone steps to central 6-panel door having fanlight with radial glazing bars under archivolt in ashlar sandstone doorcase with Doric columns, plain frieze and pediment. Flanking bays on each floor have projecting stone sills to tripartite sashes of 4, 12 and 4 panes under flat arches. Central lst-floor sash with glazing bars in matching opening. Dentilled and modillioned wooden cornice forms gutter; shaped kneelers, ashlar gable copings and rendered end stacks. Side bays each have a sash with glazing bars beneath flat arch and ashlar-coped parapet. Screen walls have flat-arched doorways, that on left is blind. Rear: parallel range has tripartite windows to each floor; projecting wing on left has been raised in the C19. Left return: coach-house/stable, on left, has infilled basket-arched carriage entrance on left of a 6-pane casement and a C20 part-glazed door under flat arch; oculus over window. Right return: side wing has panelled door and fanlight with radial glazing bars in round- arched recess beneath gable with tall apex stack. Interior: hall has inner doorway with fanlight as front; 6-panel doors; staircase with turned balusters to wreathed and ramped handrail. Front room fireplaces have iron baskets in wooden surrounds with dentilled cornices, that to front-right flanked by round-arched recesses with reeded archivolts. Rear-left room (dining room): panelled dado with Vitruvian scroll rail; iron basket in marbled frame and Neo-Classical wooden surround; round-arched recess opposite with side pilasters, archivolt and semi-dome with radial astragals.
Listing NGR: SE4232345824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341958
- 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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