Stables to Former Swillington House
STABLES TO FORMER SWILLINGTON HOUSE, WAKEFIELD ROAD LS26
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247697
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stables to Former Swillington House
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES TO FORMER SWILLINGTON HOUSE, WAKEFIELD ROAD LS26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247697
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stables to Former Swillington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES TO FORMER SWILLINGTON HOUSE, WAKEFIELD 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:
- STABLES TO FORMER SWILLINGTON HOUSE, WAKEFIELD 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:
- SE3797229408
Details
SE 32 NE SWILLINGTON WAKEFIELD ROAD
LS26 (east side, off)
6/57 Stables to former
Swillington House
II
Two stable blocks, with linking screen walls, now partly dwellings. Early
C19 (Swillington House built 1804; Pevsner); altered. Sandstone ashlar,
slate roofs. Long rectangular ranges at right angles, forming the east and
north sides of a large courtyard (an earlier range on the south side not
included in the item). Both 2 storeys, the main range slightly higher,
symmetrical, in modified classical style, with bands, giant pilasters and
corner pilasters; and segmental heads to the bays between these; the main
range of 5 + 3 + 5 bays has banded corner pilasters, and a wider centre bay
with similar pilasters, arched doorways at ground floor now (1986) mostly
covered by a flat-roofed porch, segmental-headed tripartite windows at
1st floor; the outer bays have 16-pane sashed windows on both floors, those
at 1st floor also segmental-headed, except in the centre of the right-hand
part at ground floor, where there is a plain doorway. The north range, of 12
bays, has similar windows and doors mostly alternating at ground floor, all
with rectangular ventilating panel above, and low segmental-headed 8-pane
windows at 1st floor. Hipped roofs with projecting eaves.
Listing NGR: SE3797229408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429032
- 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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