Description

BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES YORK ROAD SE33NE LS15 (south side, off), SE3737 Whinmoor 9/38 Morwick Hall

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House, now offices. Mid-late C18 for Edward Gray (Lord Mayor of Leeds 1749 and 1768) with late C19 or early C20 extension in keeping. Punch-dressed stone to sides, rear and later extension, stone slate roofs. 5 bays with added single-storey front range and 10-bay extension to left; 3 left-hand bays, 2 storeys, rest 3 storeys. Main House: symmetrical facade, rusticated quoins, raised floor bands. Added ground-floor bay: rusticated quoins; central projecting porch has open pediment on large consoles, doorway with monolithic jambs and glazed fanlight. To either side 2 bays of windows with raised plain stone surrounds. Above, to each floor, windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills, carried over central 3 bays, pedimented gable with consoles. In the tympanum blind plaque in raised architrave. Addition has continuous matching band and windows all with 12-pane sashes with smaller 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Two coupled ridge stacks to centre of original house, two ridge stacks to extension. Rear: original house: 3 wide bays with central hooded doorway over which is tall arched stairwindow. Windows either side have stone lintels and projecting sills.

Interior: largely C19. Stairhall has 4 doorways leading off with architraves and carved doorheads decorated with shell motif and cherub supporting a cartouche with the Grey coat of arms, 6-panel doors. A segmental archway with pilasters leads through to dog-leg open-string cantilevered staircase with fluted mahogany newels and ramped handrail and 2 slender turned balusters to each riser which has bracketed tread ends, dado rail and simple plaster cornice and circular boss over stairwell.

Listing NGR: SE3705837404

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  For the Record
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas