Description

HAREWOOD THE AVENUE
SE3245 LS17 (north side)

14/142 Nos 12-15 (consec)

30.3.66

GV II*

Former ribbon factory, now 4 cottages. c1760 altered to cottages by 1770, by
John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. Punch-dressed stone,
stone slate roof. 4 single cells, double-depth. 2 storeys. 8 first-floor
windows. Ashlar plinth, quoins and 1st-floor sill/impost band. Each bay
articulated by giant semicircular-arched recess giving the impression of
attached pilasters with block capitals which support the arches. Set in the
recesses doorways in bays 2, 4, 5 and 8 with monolithic jambs. Other bays have
3-light flat-faced mullioned window with slightly recessed mullions. 1st floor:
Diocletian windows filling the arches. Hipped roof with single ashlar ridge
stack, other stack to rear pitch and end stack to each hip.
Part of Carr's original model village.

N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1979) p244.

Listing NGR: SE3228245009

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533748

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)