Description

BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES YORK ROAD
SE33NE LS15 (south side, off),
SE3737 Whinmoor

9/38 Morwick Hall

II

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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319010

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)