The Bishop's House
THE BISHOP'S HOUSE, CARR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265220
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bishop's House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BISHOP'S HOUSE, CARR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265220
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bishop's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BISHOP'S HOUSE, CARR 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:
- THE BISHOP'S HOUSE, CARR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorner
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36334 40202
Details
THORNER CARR LANE SE34SE LS14 (north side, off) SE363402 Eltofts
7/177 The Bishop's House
GV II
Former Dower-house of the Earls of Mexborough, now the residence of the Bishop Emeritus of Leeds. c1775,raised refronted and extended c1840. Punch-dressed stone with a herringbone "V"- cut dressing to C18 work, tooled with small squares to 1840 work with ashlar dressings. Welsh blue-slate roof. 2 storeys and 2½ storeys to front of main house. 3-bay wing left of 3-bay house, with 2-bay house to rear linked to main house. 3-gabled frontage. Central doorway has pilastered doorway with frieze and cornice. Above, 12-pane sash in raised stone architrave surround with smaller window above under small shaped gable. Outer bays, set forward, have tripartite sashes in raised architrave surrounds to first 2 floors with square 16-pane sashes above. Coped gables with kneelers. Two lateral octagonal stacks to each side. Wing set back to left: 3 bays of windows with wedge-shaped lintels, those to ground-floor broken through to form long lights to light private chapel, those above with projecting sills and 12-pane sashes. Hipped roof with lateral stack to rear pitch. Rear of house: tall central arched stair-window set between 2 gables, tripartite sashes to left, extension to right linking rear range. Right-hand return (of house) has C18 stonework and original window with architrave and casement-moulded cornice with C19 sash window above. Inserted French window to right up 7 well-dressed steps. Link has doorway with overlight. Rear range has 2 bays of tripartite sash windows with long monolithic lintels cut with false voussoirs. Ashlar ridge stack extended in brick.
Interior: C19 rooms, several cellar steps inscribed with the date 1775. The front of the house, particularly in its stone dressing and treatment of the gables, is very similar to Field Head, Thorner Lane (q.v.) and may be by the same architect or mason.
Listing NGR: SE3633440202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425475
- 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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