Woodhouse Hall

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SE2934SW HYDE TERRACE 714-1/73/214 (South West side) 08/05/73 Nos.1-5 (Consecutive) Woodhouse Hall (Formerly Listed as: HYDE TERRACE (South West side) Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)) (Formerly Listed as: CLARENDON ROAD (North East side) No.18)

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Formerly known as: Little Woodhouse Hall. House, subsequently judges' lodgings and art school, now hospital staff residence. c1740, altered c1840. restored c1980. For Christopher Thompson. Later C18 alterations; additions and alterations c1840 probably by John Clark, interior alterations and decoration 1847 by William Reid Corson and Edward la Trobe Bateman to designs by Owen Jones, possibly for the heirs of John Atkinson; restored c1980. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof. 2 and 3 storeys over basement, 5-bay entrance facade east, 8-bay garden front faces S. East front: quoins; steps up to 6-panel door, bay 4, with overlight in architrave, pillared porch with entablature, cornice and pierced parapet forming balcony to the window above in architrave with cornice; remaining windows in architraves, first-floor sill band, C20 frames throughout; modillion eaves cornice, hipped roof with stack rear left. Left return, S garden front composed of: 3-storey, 4-bay plain facade with single and paired windows in stone architraves, C20 stair window left; flanking shallow projecting 2-storey canted bays, plain architraves left, corniced architraves right; added 2-storey 1 x 5-bay wing right, quoins, corniced architraves. INTERIOR: main door opens into corridor leading into circular domed staircase hall, all paved with mosaic in blues, browns and yellow in a geometric pattern with 8-pointed star, concentric circles and panels with Greek motifs; staircase with cast-iron panels of scrolls and flowers to balustrade, ramped handrail. At the west end of the house the plaster decoration and round-arched niche of the C18 staircase hall survives, stairs rebuilt.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the plain 3-storey range facing S was the manor house of the hamlet of Little Woodhouse, rebuilt by Christopher Thompson, gentleman; 'a new house empty' in 1740 and available for letting with 8 or 18 acres of land in 1741. In 1793 the distiller Thomas Coupland bought it; he went bankrupt in 1822 and the hall was sold to John Atkinson, a leading solicitor in the town, who died 1833. Alterations to the Hall were supervised by John Clark for Atkinson's co-heirs, his 2 sons, who lived at Waverley House, Woodhouse Square (qv) from 1840. Corson and Bateman were pupils of Owen Jones, the leading authority on polychromy in architecture and a friend of Joseph Bonomi who in 1838-40 was designing the Temple Mills, Marshall Street (qv). Six lunettes painted for the staircase hall by John Everett Millais are in the collection of Leeds City Art Gallery. In 1855 William Hey, surgeon, sold the Hall to the city for a Judges' Lodging, moving to No.20 Clarendon Road (qv). The Hall later became a part of the Art College and by 1973 was divided into 6 apartments; it is now the property of Leeds Hospital Authority. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 81, 82; Beresford, M: East End, West End: the Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1: Leeds: 1988-: 327; Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 106, 107).



Listing NGR: SE2927434153

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Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 106, 107
Beresford, M, Walks Round Red Brick, (1980), 81, 82
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 327

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