OULTON HALL

OULTON HALL, OULTON PARK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184583
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: OULTON HALL
Statutory Address:: OULTON HALL, OULTON PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184583
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: OULTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: OULTON HALL, OULTON PARK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OULTON HALL, OULTON PARK

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 35802 27736

Details

SE 32 NE ROTHWELL OULTON PARK LS26 Oulton

6/102 Oulton Hall 12th March 1974

II

Large house, now (1986) derelict. Late C18 for John Blayds; c1822 by Sir Robert Smirke for Blayds' successor John Blayds (nee Calverley); 1851-4 by Perkin and Backhouse (Leeds) for his successor John Blayds (reverted to name Calverley); 1875 by Perkin and Sons and 1885 work by Chorley and Cannon (Leeds) for Edmund Calverley. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. 2 storeys with 3-storey service wing. Original 5-bay range, facing east, with single-storey bays added each end c1822 and raised to 2 storeys 1851-4; a stairhall to rear of 1851-4 with 6-bay wing to its left (west) of same date, service wing to rear (raised to 3 storeys 1875) and entrance (north) wing to right (east) added 1885-91 (Worsley, pp. 146-9). Classical style, symmetrical: entrance (north) front of 3 wide bays, the centre recessed between rectangular 2- storey bay windows; tetrastyle Ionic porch, the capitals elaborated with swags, protecting a doorway with moulded architrave and side windows in banded rusticated surround; at each side a large tripartite window with pilastered architrave within a segmental-headed recess; at 1st floor, 3 windows in the centre and a tripartite window each side, each group under a cornice with a pediment over the centre window (all these windows now lacking glazing); cornice and panelled parapets; hipped roofs, with tall ridge chimneys, those at the front flanking the centre bay. Three-bay left return wall of this front block has single-storey bay window like those at front, separate windows above; and continued to the rear the east front of the main range, 1 + 5 + 1 bays, with a pedimented doorway in the centre, and window above, both with architraves and cornices on consoles; otherwise cornices to ground-floor windows, eared architraves to those above, and slightly projected outer bays with tripartite windows. Six-bay rear (or garden front) has similar windows but 2 in the centre of each floor have cornices on consoles, those at ground floor with superimposed swagged panels. Added west wing of less interest.

Interior: entrance hall with Venetian screen (columns missing) leading into full-height atrium in centre of main range, with 1st-floor gallery; open-well staircase on west side of linking section (stairs missing); very elaborate moulded plaster throughout, but all severely dilapidated. The work of 1851-4 followed a major fire which had destoryed earlier work by Sydney Smirke to whom the design is erroneously attributed by Pevsner. G. Worsley, "Oulton Hall, West Yorkshire", Country Life 17 Sept. 1987, pp 146-9.

Listing NGR: SE3580227736

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Legacy System number:: 342101
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
'Country Life' in 17 September, (1987), 146-9
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 45 West Yorkshire,

Legal

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