Description

SE 23 NW
8/34
4.3.1983

AIREBOROU6H
WOODLANDS DRIVE LS19
Rawdon
Woodleigh Hall

II

Large house, now Health Authority training school. Dated 1869 on porch.
L-shaped plan. Two storeys and attics, in early Renaissance style with
mullion-and-transom windows, and shaped gables. Elaborate centrepiece
consisting of a porch with coupled Corinthian columns, enriched entablature
and parapet capped by finials; first-floor stage with a window of two round-
headed lights within a round-headed frame, flanked by coupled tapered
pilasters; and a square tower with two round-headed lights to each face,
framed by pilaster-strips having faceted rustication and standing over
coupled brackets, a bracketed cornice and open work parapet capped by
finials. At the right-hand end of the facade a semicircular oriel to the
first floor. The left return wall has a loggia of Tuscan columns with
faceted rustication. At the right-hand end is a 6-bay conservatory with
projecting 3-bay bowed centre, full-length windows between narrow pillars
with faceted rustication, and entablature with finials over the pillars, and
a wrought-iron framed roof with scrolled decoration.

Interior: features include a two-storey top-lit hall containing a timber
staircase with arcaded balustrade and panelled dado, and a first-floor
arcade; and elaborate compartmented ceilings, one with bas-relief inserts and
painted decoration.

Listing NGR: SE2200238299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428972

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)