Description

HAREWOOD THE AVENUE
SE3245 LS17 (north side)

14/141 No 11

30.3.66

GV II*

Former doctor's surgery and house, now house. Early-mid C18 by John Carr for
Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. Punch-dressed stone, stone slate roof.
Double-depth. 3 storeys with flanking 2-storey wings. 5-bay symmetrical
facade. 1st-floor sill-band, eaves band carried across central 3 bays as
2nd-floor band with open-pedimented gable above. Central and outer bays have
giant semicircular-arched recesses the voussoirs aligned to the courses. Central
doorway has shouldered swept architrave, consoles and casement-moulded cornice;
partly-glazed door with overlight. Flanked by deep 15-pane sash windows with
square 9-pane sashes above and smaller 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor with taller
12-pane central sash breaking into tympanum of pedimented gable which has
cyma-moulded coping. Outer bays have paired 15-pane sashes with ashlar lintels
and sills and small 9-pane segmental-arched windows set in arch above. Wings
have hipped roofs. 3 ashlar stacks to rear pitch and gable stack to rear right
gable of more utilitarian back range. Right-hand return has tall 21-pane sashed
stairwindow to left of doorway with monolithic jambs.
Interior: ground-floor rooms retain C18 plaster cornices but C19 fireplaces. Simple
C19 dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail. C18 stair to attic
has gun-barrel turned balusters. Attic rooms have C18 stone fireplaces with
architraves and decorative cast-iron grates.
Part of Carr's original model village.

Listing NGR: SE3229745013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533396

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