Brookfoot House Pear Tree Cottage
BROOKFOOT HOUSE, LOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261242
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brookfoot House Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKFOOT HOUSE, LOW LANE
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- 2002-10-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/08852/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261242
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brookfoot House Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKFOOT HOUSE, LOW LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, LOW 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:
- BROOKFOOT HOUSE, LOW LANE
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, LOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsforth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 24480 38696
Details
HORSFORTH LOW LANE SE 23 NW LS 18 (east side, off) 8/136 Brookfoot House and 29.1.85 Pear Tree Cottage - II
House, now 2 dwellings, with attached cottages (unoccupied at time of survey, 1986). Late C17, remodelled in C18, and cottages added in C18; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roofs. The principal element is a 3-unit formerly lobby-entry plan, with rear outshut. Two storeys and 3 bays; chamfered plinth; C18 inserted doorways at both junctions, that at the 2nd junction surrounded by altered coursing in the masonry, and with a break in the plinth on each side suggesting the position of a former porch; 3 recessed windows on each floor, all of 2 lights with flat-faced mullions and double-chamfered jambs, and all now casements with glazing bars. Raised gable copings with moulded kneelers; external gable chimney stacks with corniced chimneys, similar chimney on ridge in line with 2nd door.
Interior: altered, but retains, inter alia, moulded plaster beams and cornices, the top flight of a wide original staircase, a Tudor-arched chamfered doorway at rear of 1st floor, and at least one decorated cast-iron "duck's-nest" hobgrate at 1st floor .
Pair of Cottaqes attached and set back at left end, 2 units and 2 low storeys, facing to rear: 2 doorways with plain surrounds (lst altered as windows), 2 square windows on each floor, mostly 2-light horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars, and small window at 1st floor.
Listing NGR: SE2448038696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438079
- 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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