The Mansion Gotts Park
THE MANSION GOTTS PARK, ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256386
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Mansion Gotts Park
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANSION GOTTS PARK, ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256386
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Mansion Gotts Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANSION GOTTS PARK, ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD
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:
- THE MANSION GOTTS PARK, ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD
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 26364 34386
Details
LEEDS
SE2634 ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD, Upper Armley 714-1/27/1197 (East side (off)) 19/10/51 The Mansion, Gott's Park
II
Formerly known as: Armley House ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD Upper Armley. Country house, now offices and clubhouse, with terrace wall and steps. 1781 for Thomas Woolrick, remodelled 1810-1820 by Robert Smirke for Benjamin Gott. Ashlar, low-pitched hipped slate roof. Greek Revival style. 2 storeys, 3 bays, flanking single-storey curved wings. E front: projecting portico with giant fluted Ionic columns supporting entablature and pediment, enclosing wide 2-storeyed canted bay. Sash windows, continuous 1st-floor sill band; 3 round-arched windows to flanking wings, cornice and parapet, balustraded side wings. Tall corniced stacks behind ridge. West front: a parallel 2-storey, 3-window hipped-roofed block with mid C19 features: single-storey glazed ashlar porch has pilasters, deep eaves on stone brackets; architraves to windows, sill band, eaves cornice and blocking course. Tall corniced end stacks. Outer wings demolished mid C20. Sunken service courtyard of apsidal design at northern end. INTERIOR: entrance hall has black and white chequered stone floor, egg-and-dart mouldings to outer and inner hall cornices. 2-flight cantilevered stairs, the balustrade covered, ramped handrail, segmental arch; on the landing paired columns in antis, fluted capitals. Principal rooms not seen. Important features of the house are Gott's cast-iron service stair and the fire-proof structure which includes cast-iron beams supporting vaulted masonry floors and cast-iron panelled doors. The first Greek Revival house built in West Yorkshire. (Linstrum D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-: 80-82).
Listing NGR: SE2636434386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464960
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 80-82
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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