High Gables
HIGH GABLES, WETHERBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265273
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- High Gables
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH GABLES, WETHERBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265273
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- High Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH GABLES, WETHERBY ROAD
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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:
- HIGH GABLES, WETHERBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Scarcroft
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36536 41768
Details
SCARCROFT WETHERBY ROAD SE34SE LS14 (east side, off) SE365417
7/169 High Gables
II
House. Dated 1830 by J and T Uttley for W Mann. Rendered brick, ashlar dressings, Welsh blue-slate roof. Unusual 3-cell plan, the outer cells double-depth. Jacobean Revival Style. 2½ storeys. 3-gabled frontage,each cell facing a different angle,with rusticated quoins. Symmetrical. Central doorway has Tudor-arched lintel and moulded surround with hood on brackets, date-plaque to ground-floor right. All windows are chamfered mullioned with composite jambs: 2-light above door. Set in shaped gable, with copings and lantern finial, 2-light window. Narrow flanking bays with long chamfered lights. Outer cells each project and have 3-light window with 2-light above and altered attic window in shaped gable. Roof has fishscale slate; single stack to left of centre cell. Left-hand return: 2 bays of 3-light windows with 2-light above with, between, single long narrow light with same above. Lateral stack.
Interior: octagonal entrance-hall with foliated cornice, 3 doorways with architraves flank basket-archway with moulding and colonnettes leading to staircase, closed- string with turned balusters. To left, 1st cell has cast-iron fireplace in a Neo-Classical style with pilasters, frieze decorated with palmettes with swags, dentil cornice, carved casement-moulded cornice; moulded ceiling cornice.
Originally known as Mann's Folly.
Listing NGR: SE3653641768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425467
- 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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