Roundhay Hall Hospital
ROUNDHAY HALL HOSPITAL, JACKSON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375029
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Roundhay Hall Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- ROUNDHAY HALL HOSPITAL, JACKSON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375029
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Roundhay Hall Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROUNDHAY HALL HOSPITAL, JACKSON AVENUE
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:
- ROUNDHAY HALL HOSPITAL, JACKSON AVENUE
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:
- SE3207437425
Details
SE33NW
714-1/7/705
05/08/76
LEEDS
JACKSON AVENUE, Gledhow
(North side (off))
Roundhay Hall Hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
THORN LANE, Gledhow
Roundhay Hall Hospital)
GV
II
Mansion, now private hospital. c1835. Attributed to John
Clark, for John Goodman. Ashlar, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 3
bays, in Neo-Classical style, broad corner pilasters and
centre rusticated.
West front: large central entrance portico with giant
Corinthian columns supporting pediment with acroteria, large
doorway in moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets.
Moulded architraves to windows, 6-pane casements, cornices to
ground floor. Moulded string course at ground-floor and
1st-floor sill levels; modillion eaves cornice, blocking
course with central coat of arms and paired chimneys with
cylindrical moulded shafts, ornate cast-iron panels missing.
Hipped roof with moulded stacks. Right return: 2:3:2 windows,
centre projects with ground floor semicircular bay with
Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature and parapet with
cast-iron panels forming balcony to 1st floor centre 3-light
window.
INTERIOR: paired glass doors, bronze traceried overlight,
mosaic and marble floor to lobby; staircase hall has
geometric-pattern mosaic floor and fine divided staircase with
bronze-colour ornate balustrade, wall niches, coved ceiling.
Principal front room has deep scrolled plasterwork to cornice,
fireplace with bolection-moulded marble surround.
The home of Edward Allen, first Lord Brotherton, whose library
became the nucleus of the Leeds University library; later a
hospital for women.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-: 83).
Listing NGR: SE3207437425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465909
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 83
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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