Ashling and Ashling Cottage
Ashling and Ashling Cottage, Back Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256325
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ashling and Ashling Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Ashling and Ashling Cottage, Back Church Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256325
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Ashling and Ashling Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ashling and Ashling Cottage, Back Church 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:
- Ashling and Ashling Cottage, Back Church Lane
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:
- SE 27547 40198
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 March 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
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714-1/2/464
LEEDS
Adel
BACK CHURCH LANE (South side (off))
Ashling and Aisling Cottage
(Formerly Listed as: BACK CHURCH LANE, Adel (South side (off)) Adel Rectory)
19/10/51
GV
II
Rectory, now two private houses. Late C18 with remains of C17 and possibly earlier house to rear. Coursed squared gritstone and rubble, some herring-bone tooling, ashlar details, stone slate roofs.
The present main range, now Ashling, faces south: two storeys, five bays, central three bays break forward with moulded pediment; plinth and quoins. Central mid C19 stone porch with pilasters and entablature; sashes with glazing bars, ground-floor sill band, plain lintels. Ashlar stacks to rear of ridge, at each end of hipped roof. Left return: turned quoins indicate that the main range is of two builds; a sixteen- and a nine-pane sash window; rear wing, left, now Aisling Cottage, has plain surround to entrance right, facade facing rear yard has chamfered doorway with replaced lintel and altered plank door left; the reset original lintel to right has a flattened ogee arch, carved spandrels and inscription: '1652 WC'. Right return: a two storey mid C18 bay window right, small-pane sashes replaced, in Aisling Cottage.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
William Clarkson is thought to have altered a timber-framed house in 1652; the east side bay window was added by the Rector William Jackson c1740 and a new front range, with stair-hall, Adam-style fireplace and corridor linking to the old range, was added 1766-70 by Sandford Hardcastle. Work continued to c1819 for the Revd George Lewthwaite, roof raised, service buildings added including kitchen with metal-lined shutters, probably the date for the alterations to the C17 doorway and resetting of the lintel. In 1858 the building was remodelled again, for Henry Trail Simpson, including reroofing and the porch added. In 1946-47 the rear wing became a separate cottage and the church sold the building in 1975.
Listing NGR: SE2754840207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465037
- 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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