Details
LEEDS
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)
II*
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-).
Listing NGR: SE3066932998
