Description

LEEDS

SE2536 ABBEY ROAD, Kirkstall 714-1/18/890 (South side (off)) 05/08/76 Kirkstall Forge: former cottages, now offices (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY ROAD, Kirkstall (South side) Directors' Dining Room (former cottages) NW of E gateway at Kirkstall Forge)

GV II

2 cottages and screen wall with gate pier. Late C18, altered C19. Probably for Beecroft and Butler families. Coursed squared gritstone, slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Quoins to right. Doorway, now window, to left in each bay, tie-stone jambs left, plain surround right. 2 large square windows to ground floor, both have lowered sill; 3-light flat-faced mullion windows to upper floor, the right window rebuilt. Brick stacks to right of each bay. Screen wall extends to right, approx 3m high, rounded coping, approx 4m long, doorway, now window left; a loophole right and plaque recording insertion during the Second World War; to right again a gate pier of rusticated ashlar with ball finial. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SE2521436484

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)