Description

LEEDS

SE23NE WEETWOOD LANE, Weetwood
714-1/6/1233 (West side (off))
17/06/96 Former Coach House and Stables to
Bardon Hill

GV II

Formerly known as: Dining room and caretakers flat at St
Urban's School WEETWOOD LANE Weetwood.
Coach house and stables with walls and railings, now dining
room, gymnasium and flat. 1873-5, largely rebuilt c1902. By
Thomas Winn. For Joseph Pickersgill. Coursed gritstone ground
floor, timber-framed upper floor, red tiled roof, part
restored (see below).
2 storeys, U-plan with part-domestic W range flanked by
projecting N (stables) and S (coach-house/exercise area)
wings. Vernacular Revival style.
Fine detailing includes, to ground floor: stable doors with
branched strap hinges and moulded raised lintel with flanking
and top lights containing decorative coloured glass, in a
shallow pointed arch of ashlar voussoirs. The arch repeated in
windows and doors surrounding the stable yard, the 2 doorways
and 3 windows to the ground floor, main range being very
large, with wooden small-pane frames.
First-floor: main range similar window to N wing. E gables of
wings have a 3-light (left) and a single light (right) window
above the moulded stone string, carved brackets below a
cambered machicolated collar and tiled gablet.
The yard is closed by a low wall with wrought-iron railing
incorporating scrolled panels with Art Nouveau motifs,
rusticated piers.
Rear (west) facade: external stairs with distinctive
wrought-iron panel, semicircular lobby, gables left and right;
walls to rear yard with railings, ball finials to gate piers,
timber panelled gates with strap hinges.
INTERIOR: very fine tiling survives in the stables, also
cast-iron stall divisions, stained-glass windows; the rear
engine house and lobby also tiled and yard floor set with
herringbone pattern cobbles and tiles.
HISTORICAL NOTE: archives of the Leeds clock-makers Potts
include a note that a Cambridge Quarter Clock with 4
illuminated dials and 5 bells was supplied c1901 for J
Pickersgill, Bardon Hill, Weetwood Lane, Headingley. The
structure possibly stood in the centre of the ridge, where
tiles have been replaced. Joseph Pickersgill was described as
a millionaire race-horse owner in his obituary, 1920.

(Yorkshire Evening Post, 23 August 1920: Obituary of Joseph
Pickersgill; Hopwood A (pers.comm) January 1993; RCHME:
Historic Building Report: Bardon Hill aka St Urban's School:
1995-).

Listing NGR: SE2720637682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547316

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