Chadwick Lodge and Attached Walls and Railings

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SE3032NE CROWN POINT ROAD 714-1/81/141 (East side) 26/09/63 No.24 Chadwick Lodge and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: CROWN POINT ROAD No.24)

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House with rear basement steps, wall, railings and remains of lamp post. Late C18, altered mid-late C20. For John Chadwick. Millstone grit faced in ashlar; slate roof: low pitch, hipped, cornice and blocking course, paired end stacks, one rebuilt in brick. 2 storeys with attic and basement, almost square on plan, 5 bays wide, the centre 3 rusticated and break forward slightly, surmounted by a moulded pediment with 4-pane elliptical light in tympanum. South front (to garden): flight of 7 steps, (altered, see below) up to central door of 6 fielded-panels, semicircular overlight with intersecting glazing bars, moulded imposts and architrave in surround with Tuscan three-quarter columns supporting entablature, cornice and triangular pediment. Fenestration: 4-pane sashes; central first-floor window has fluted pilasters and panel above, the remainder have voussoirs, continuous sill-bands. Rear: central fielded-panel door with plain lintel, stone steps to right down to basement have a retaining wall with plain coping, railings with alternate plain and wavy rails, knobbed finials to standards, lamp post (head missing), at left end; first floor centre: round-headed stair window has voussoirs and interlaced glazing bars; flanking 16-pane sashes with margin lights and plain lintels to both floors; bracketed cornice, pediment with elliptical light. Left return: service entrance with 8 worn steps, railing as rear, some missing, a slender column-on-vase standard at foot of steps, 4-panel door; paired first-floor sashes, one with glazing bars, plain sills and lintels, flanking down-pipes, the upper parts lead and having fine moulded heads decorated with fleurs-de-lis. Right return: paired ground, and first-floor windows and down pipes as left return. INTERIOR: a cross wall divides the house into south principal rooms and north service rooms with staircase; the arched

opening through this wall, between the entrance hall and the stair hall, was blocked up when the house was divided into two units in c1960; the house has since been returned to one unit but inserted partitions and blocked openings remain. The south, main entrance has a fluted doorcase, moulded cornice to entrance hall, inserted partition and moulded plaster ceiling with central rose and circular fan heavily overpainted; left (south-west) main room: original shutters, panels below windows, dado rail, plaster moulded frames to wall panels, round-arched recess in north wall with reeded pilasters, Classical motifs including acanthus leaves, beading, swags, bows, scrolls and paterae, finely-moulded ceiling cornice, fireplace with Classical wooden surround. Right (south east) former dining room, now a kitchen, has a blocked arched recess as main room obscured by the service stair with slim column balusters which is repositioned from the north west original kitchen. Original kitchen: remains of a stone cornice and mantel shelf above the wide blocked fireplace, shutters to window, site of service stair against east wall. North-west room not examined in detail. The central area is taken up by the rear service entrance into the stair hall containing a cantilevered stone stair of 2 flights with wrought-iron balustrade of alternate straight and wavy stick balusters carrying a ramped handrail wreathed at the foot of the stairs and having a column on vase end baluster. The stair window has a stone surround with fluted pilasters; the ceiling above the landing has decorative plasterwork in 3 panels with a circle enclosing swags of husks and bows, a central rose, all heavily overpainted. First floor: original features include remains of Classical surrounds to fireplaces, one with cast-iron basket grate, ceiling cornices, window shutters; alterations include bathroom inserted at original service stair head and attic stairs removed. Attics: double queen-post roof trusses, pegged purlins, the gable purlins supported by finely carved wooden columns carrying large beam-ends; plaster partitions and catch-light openings. Basement: access is from a steep flight of stone steps to left of the rear entrance, under the stairs; stone vaulted and partitioned, entrance from rear reduced to a coal shute; original features include stone shelves and bottle bins, meat hooks and a cold store with iron-hinged and padlock-latched stone slab door, stone basin and shelf. HISTORICAL NOTE: John Chadwick owned a dye house on the south bank of the Aire, just north of the house, and the approach to the rear of the building was lined with rows of houses by

1815, with an eastwards extension to Bowman Lane called Chadwick's Yard. The other sides of the house faced open fields, with outbuildings on the west side and access across the fields to Hunslet Mill (qv). The 1847 OS map shows the original Imperial-type divided flight of steps to the front door. The relationship of the owner, workers' housing, dye house and wharves was altered c1840 when Crown Point Bridge (qv) was begun and Crown Point Road established; the west garden boundary retains the original line of the property. Reputed (RCHME) to be c1790 but possibly 1779. An important example of the house of a wealthy textile businessman built close to his source of wealth and the homes of the workpeople involved in the trade. (Giles, N & Giles, F: Plan of the Town of Leeds: 1815-).



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