Description

LEEDS

SE23NE WEETWOOD COURT, Weetwood 714-1/6/1221 (West side) No.37 Weetwood Manor

II

Large house, now flats. c1875. Probably by John Simpson. Coursed squared rock-faced gritstone, ashlar details, blue slate roof with fish-scale decoration. 3 storeys, 3 x 3 bays. Gothic Revival style, ashlar quoins. Central entrance in projecting turret: chamfered arch, carving in tympanum, hoodmould, 2- and 3-light windows above, deep bracketed eaves and lucarne window; tall spire. Paired plate-glass sashes, carved barge-boards and finial to gable right, tall moulded stacks to ridge, centre. Right return: wide gabled bay with canted bay window left, narrower gabled bay with square full-height bay window right, central dormer window. INTERIOR: not inspected. In course of restoration and conversion to flats at time of Review (1992). Built on or close to the site of 'Weetwood Lodge' marked on the 1834 map, this house was occupied by Frederick Baines in 1888 and probably built for him. (Linstrum D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 384; Baines and Newsome: Map of the Borough of Leeds: 1834-).



Listing NGR: SE2741037626

External Links

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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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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)