Lofthouse Farmhouse
LOFTHOUSE FARMHOUSE, WIKE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227576
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lofthouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOFTHOUSE FARMHOUSE, WIKE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227576
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lofthouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOFTHOUSE FARMHOUSE, WIKE LANE
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:
- LOFTHOUSE FARMHOUSE, WIKE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Harewood
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32886 43085
Details
HAREWOOD WIKE LANE SE34SE LS17 (north side, off) SE328431
6/162 Lofthouse Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse, flanking pavilions and link walls. c1755 probably by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. Punch-dressed stone, stone slate roofs. Symmetrical composition: central 2-storey 3-bay house, the central bay 3 storeys and breaking forward, flanked by walls linking to 1-storey 1-bay pavilions. Quoins. House: central bay has 3-light flat-faced mullioned window with plain-stone surround and slightly recessed mullions to each floor, that to ground floor has central light altered to doorway with monolithic jambs approached up a short flight of stone steps. Hipped roof with stack-to ridge. Flanking bays have 2-light window to each floor. Hipped roofs. Link walls have ashlar coping. Pavilions each have small blind window with plain-stone surround with small oculus, partly blocked, above. Pyramidal roofs. Rear: central bay of house has 3-light window to each floor. Walls to pavilions had lean-to roofs, one altered to garage, the other gone.
Interior: kitchen, to rear, has stop-chamfered soft wood spine-beam and floor joists. Central room has fireplace with monolithic jambs and basket-arched lintel.
Designed as an eye-catcher from the C18 main entrance to Gawthorp Hall and Harewood House (q.v.): "Lofthouse Farm facing the gate was built in a style to emulate the house", J. M. Robinson, "In Pursuit of Excellence", Country Life, June 28, 1979 pp2113-2115.
Listing NGR: SE3288643085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425459
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 28 June, (1979), 2113-2115
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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