LEVENTHORPE HALL

LEVENTHORPE HALL, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247691
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1978
List Entry Name:: LEVENTHORPE HALL
Statutory Address:: LEVENTHORPE HALL, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247691
Date first listed:: 05-Jul-1978
List Entry Name:: LEVENTHORPE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: LEVENTHORPE HALL, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD 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:: LEVENTHORPE HALL, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Swillington
National Grid Reference:: SE 36877 30037

Details

SE 33 SE SWILLINGTON NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26 (south site, off)

2/50 Leventhorpe Hall

5th July 1978 II*

House. 1774, by John Carr of York for Richard Green (information given with first listing). Double-depth plan with one canted bay at the front and two at the rear. Two storeys and 7 bays, symmetrical, with canted 3-bay centre; doorway, up 3 steps with iron railings and curtail, has moulded architrave and pediment on consoles; 1st-floor band; 12-pane sashed windows with moulded architraves, those at ground floor with a sill-band and moulded cornices and these above with balustraded aprons rising frail the band. Modillioned eaves cornice, hipped 2-span roof with chimneys on the real ridge and end-wall chimneys. Both return walls rendered, that on the left with a doorway. Rear elevation has flanking canted bays, 2 French windows in the centre, with square overlights, sashed windows without glazing bars at ground floor and 12-pane sashes above, with balustrades like those at the front.

Interior; central hall with open-well staircase (scrolled brackets, stick balusters) ; dining room has painted ceiling with naturalistic flowers, birds, etc, in late C18 style.

Listing NGR: SE3687730037

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 429024
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.