East Ardsley Old Hall
EAST ARDSLEY OLD HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1250736
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- East Ardsley Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- EAST ARDSLEY OLD HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1250736
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- East Ardsley Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST ARDSLEY OLD HALL, MAIN STREET
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:
- EAST ARDSLEY OLD HALL, MAIN STREET
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:
- SE3057325261
Details
In the Entry for:
SE32NW MORLEY Main Street
SE30 25 (east side)
East Ardsley
3/77 East Ardsley
3.7.85 Old Hall
G.V II*
At the end of the second paragraph this sentence shall be inserted:
"on the upper floor, (within no 2) an original C17, 4 centred arched
fireplace, with early C18 Delft tiles".
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SE32NW WF3 MAIN STREET
SE3025 MORLEY (east side)
East Ardsley
3/77 East Ardsley
Old Hall
3.7.85
GV II*
Large gentry house, partly unoccupied. Of three builds: dated 1622; 1632;
and mid C17. Much weathered sandstone, ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs.
2 storeys, 3-room hall-and-crosswings plan, double-depth. E-shaped to front,
T-shaped to rear. 5-bay symmetrical facade. Plinth, quoins, central bay,
a gabled 2-storey porch in ashlar, has Tudor-arched doorway with moulded
surround (cyma, step, roll) and spandrels. To either side is the date 1632
set in an incised shield and tressure. Lintel inscribed "Robert..... (Shaw)
in Domino Confido". Set above is carved representation of a talbot dog in
relief. Cyma-moulded band. 1st floor jettied under cyma-moulded surround has
4-light mullioned-and-transomed window with ovolo moulded mullions. Cyma-moulded
cornice. Coped gable with finials to apex and kneelers. Side returns have
cross-window to 1st floor. Flanking bays (2 and 4) have a 3-light mullioned-and-
transomed window to each floor. Outer bays (1 and 5) project slightly and have
quoined angles. lst bay, dated 1622 and probably a parlourwing built on to an
earlier hall range, has a 7-light mullioned-and-transomed window with hoodmould
to each floor. 5th bay has a 5-light mullioned-and-transomed window to each floor
and inserted doorway with flat Tudor-arched lintel and moulded surround. Added
mid C17 bay to right has cross-window to each floor and cat-slide roof. Outer
bays have coped gables with kneelers and apex finials, that to 1st bay dated.
Stack at junction of bays 4 and 5 set forward from ridge. One other lateral
stack to left. Rear: 3 gables, central bay projects. Left cell has blocked
cusped light and 2-light window lacking mullion with 3-light double-chamfered
mullioned window to 1st floor. Central bay has quoined angles and inserted
windows. 3rd bay has 7-light window (altered to 5-lights) with 7-light mullioned-
and-transomed window to 1st floor (all blocked except one light).
Interior: the doorway opens directly into the hall which has 2 spine beams with
plaster casings. John Batty reported that the fireplace had an ornamental plaster
overmantel (W. Smith, pp16-18) but this no longer survives. The west parlour has
an original plaster cornice. The wing to rear of hall was probably a kitchen wing
and was added mid C17. Opening out of the north-east corner of the hall is the
main stair, half-turned with landings, heavy turned balusters and square newels,
possibly late C17 and contemporary with the decoration of the east parlour chamber.
This has panelled walls (painted) with 3 stages of fielded bolection-moulded
panelling and a fireplace with bolection-moulded surround and a deeply-moulded
cornice. These fittings suggest that the room became one of the main display areas
in the house, and may have been a lst-floor diningroom.
The house is a fine example of a gentry dwelling of its date. It is unusual in
having a central entry at such an early date, and this feature together with the
provision of good quality parlours and chambers show a significant decline in the
status of the hall.
L. Ambler, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire (1913), pp72-73.
Building News, March 30th, 1883. RCHM (England) report.
W. Smith (ed), J. Batty, The Old Hall of East Ardsley; Old Yorkshire,
New Series I (1889), copy in YAS Library.
Listing NGR: SE3057325261
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913), 72 TO 73
Old Yorkshire New Series in Old Yorkshire New Series, Vol. 1, (1889)
Building News in 30 March, (1883)
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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