Leventhorpe Cottages
LEVENTHORPE COTTAGES, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247694
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Leventhorpe Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- LEVENTHORPE COTTAGES, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247694
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Leventhorpe Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEVENTHORPE COTTAGES, NEWSAM GREEN ROAD LS26
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:
- LEVENTHORPE COTTAGES, 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 37046 29956
Details
SE 32 NE SWILLINGTON NEMSAM GREEN ROAD LS26 (west side, off)
6/53 Leventhorpe Cottages 27th October 1976 II
Former stables to Leventhorpe Hall, now partitioned and altered as dwellings. Dated 1856 on inner side of entrance arch. Magnesian limestone with dressings of the same, slate roof. U-plan round a courtyard facing west with a screen wall and entrance arch closing the 4th side, and a domestic wing attached to the north-east corner. Single-storey, symmetrical; semicircular entrance arch with impost bands, horse-mask keystone, and ornamental cresting on the apex; pedimented gables to the wings, each with a round-headed window breaking into the pediment and fielded panel flanking the window (left gable rendered below the band, with an inserted window), and a 2-flue chimney on the apex of the gable. Inside the courtyard the main range has a segmental-headed wagon door on each side (that on the right altered as a window), a round-headed blind window in the centre; and, rising above this, a 3-stage bell-tower with achievement of arms to the first stage, circular clock-face to the second, and octagonal bellcote with cornice, donical roof and ornamental weather-vane. The wings (and the domestic wing outside) have impost bands to round-headed windows and doors. Low-pitched roofs, that to the main range hipped, the others with stone coping to the gables.
Listing NGR: SE3704629956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429027
- 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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