Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, 55, TOWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261839
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, 55, TOWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261839
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, 55, TOWN 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, 55, TOWN 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:
- SE 19441 42408
Details
AIREBOROUGH TOWN STREET SE 14 SE LS20 (west side) Guiseley) 4/79 No. 55 - (Manor House) GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1681 on lintel; altered. Large dressed sandstone blocks in graduated courses with quoins, stone slate roof. Two-unit central-lobby-entry plan. Two storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical; continuous dripmould over ground-floor openings, stepped over door; on each side a recessed 4-light mullioned window (each lacking the centre mullion), and at left end evidence of a former single-light window; at 1st floor a double-chamfered single-light window above the door, and on each side a 3-light window with plain surround and flat-faced flush mullions; to right of centre window, a square sundial dated 1683 (probably ex situ, because out of orientation); large corniced ridge chimney in line with door, chimney and gable coping with kneelers at right-hand gable; stone slate roof continuous with Nos. 53 and 51 to left (q.v.); but another chimney at junction.
Interior: housebody in left-hand room has large and very fine stone fireplace with corbelled segmental arch, the corbels cut in one piece with the outermost vousoirs, stepped voussoirs and moulded cornice; large longitudinal chamfered beam, and chamfered joists, all with triangular stops. (Longitudinal partition wall inserted towards rear makes rear service rooms).
History: said to have been built as house for schoolmaster of Guiseley.
Listing NGR: SE1944142408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433690
- 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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