Description

LEEDS

SE2634 ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD, Upper Armley
714-1/27/1197 (East side (off))
19/10/51 The Mansion, Gott's Park

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Formerly known as: Armley House ARMLEY RIDGE ROAD Upper
Armley.
Country house, now offices and clubhouse, with terrace wall
and steps. 1781 for Thomas Woolrick, remodelled 1810-1820 by
Robert Smirke for Benjamin Gott. Ashlar, low-pitched hipped
slate roof. Greek Revival style.
2 storeys, 3 bays, flanking single-storey curved wings. E
front: projecting portico with giant fluted Ionic columns
supporting entablature and pediment, enclosing wide 2-storeyed
canted bay. Sash windows, continuous 1st-floor sill band; 3
round-arched windows to flanking wings, cornice and parapet,
balustraded side wings. Tall corniced stacks behind ridge.
West front: a parallel 2-storey, 3-window hipped-roofed block
with mid C19 features: single-storey glazed ashlar porch has
pilasters, deep eaves on stone brackets; architraves to
windows, sill band, eaves cornice and blocking course. Tall
corniced end stacks. Outer wings demolished mid C20. Sunken
service courtyard of apsidal design at northern end.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has black and white chequered stone
floor, egg-and-dart mouldings to outer and inner hall
cornices. 2-flight cantilevered stairs, the balustrade
covered, ramped handrail, segmental arch; on the landing
paired columns in antis, fluted capitals. Principal rooms not
seen. Important features of the house are Gott's cast-iron
service stair and the fire-proof structure which includes
cast-iron beams supporting vaulted masonry floors and
cast-iron panelled doors.
The first Greek Revival house built in West Yorkshire.
(Linstrum D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
1978-: 80-82).

Listing NGR: SE2636434386

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Armley House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26547903

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)