Description

AIREBOROUGH IVEGATE SE 24 SW LS 19 (east side), Yeadon 5/8 Willow Cottage - - II

House. Probably early to mid C18 (possibly remodelling earlier building), enlarged in late C18 or early C19; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, scored stucco facade, stone slate roof. L-shaped plan, formed by 3- unit front range with addition to rear of right-hand half. Two storeys and 3 bays, with cellars; doorway offset slightly left of centre, with plain surround, cellar doorway and window on lower level at left end; two 3-light windows at ground floor and 3 above, all with flat-faced flush mullions and plain surrounds; corniced chimney at left gable, a similar but larger chimney on the ridge at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd units; gable copings with moulded kneelers. Rear has inter alia a 3-light window at 1st floor and a round-headed stairlight with tracery in the head. Addition, under cat-slide roof, has one 3-light window on each floor (upper with one blocked light), and a blocked taking-in door at the right-hand end.

Interior: evidence of remodelling includes exceptionally thick stone partition wall between 2nd and 3rd units, wide and irregular entrance hall in centre, fine dog-leg staircase rising from this, with open string, very slender turned balusters and ramped handrail; and fielded panel doors, that through the stone partition wall with H-L hinges.

Listing NGR: SE2068741027

External Links

• Wikidata Q26499605

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy