Meanwood Park Hospital

Meanwood Park Hospital, Parkside Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375476
Date first listed:: 02-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: Meanwood Park Hospital
Statutory Address:: Meanwood Park Hospital, Parkside Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375476
Date first listed:: 02-Feb-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: Meanwood Park Hospital
Statutory Address 1:: Meanwood Park Hospital, Parkside Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Meanwood Park Hospital, Parkside Road

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:: SE 28592 38142

Details

SE23NE 714-1/6/972

LEEDS Meanwood PARKSIDE ROAD (North side (off)) Meanwood Park Hospital (Formerly Listed as: PARKSIDE HALL, Meanwood Meanwood Hall (Meanwood Park Hospital))

02/02/76 II Large house, now hospital. c1762. For Thomas Denison. North wing added 1814 for Joseph Lees, school master; c1830 the main square block refaced, bay windows, coping, by John Clark for Christopher Beckett, banker. Ashlar, rusticated to ground floor, slate roof, coursed squared gritstone to rear wing. Italianate style.

Two storeys, 2:1:2 windows, centre projects. Central porch with fluted Ionic columns supporting entablature with balustrade forming balcony to first floor centre tripartite window which has pediment on console brackets. Flanking windows, sashes with glazing bars, keyed wedge lintels to ground floor, architraves with stone balustrade and bracketed cornice to first floor. Deep bracketed eaves, plain balustered parapet, moulded coping; large dentilled stack centre.

Left return: the main block has two-storey semicircular bays with first floor stone balustrade and eaves detailing as front; the lower wing to left, probably the 1814 work, of coursed squared gritstone, has sashes with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds, two banded stacks.

Right return: main block has one round and one square projecting bay, extension right in ashlar: one bay with sash window and margin lights to ground floor, sash in architrave and parapet above, extended right with five first floor windows as a lower service wing, door with overlight left, canted bay window, stone gutter brackets, square ridge stack.

INTERIOR: outer entrance hall with plaster coffered ceiling, doorways left and right with acanthus mouldings and entablature, panelled doors; fluted Ionic columns in antis, inner hall with cantilevered divided stair, acanthus design in cast-iron balustrade, ramped mahogany handrail. Coffered ceiling above with clerestory, console bracketed frieze with scrolls. Ground floor, left: patterned marble round-arched fireplace, panelled reveals to false double doors and windows, acanthus frieze and egg-and-dart moulding. Ground floor, right: large room sub-divided, a fine white marble fireplace in Baroque style with large console brackets supporting deep mantel-shelf.

Robert Denison sold the house to the banker Christopher Beckett in 1824 and it was occupied by the family until the death of Christopher's sister, Elizabeth Beckett in 1864. It was occupied by tenants, unoccupied from 1872-75, until in 1919 the house was eased by Leeds Corporation as a mental hospital; in 1921 the estate was purchased from Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon of Thonock, Gainsborough.

Listing NGR: SE2859238142

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Legacy System number:: 466373
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hopwood, A W, Casperson, F P , Meanwood Village Valley Industry and People, (1986), 54

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.