Description

SE 22 NW SPENBOROUGH MB OXFORD ROAD (west side)
GOMERSAL
2/148
Pollard Hall
12/1/67

II*

Exceedingly fine hall house. Dated 1659, though part to left may be
slightly earlier, with 1889 addition. Built for Tempest and Mary
Pollard. Hammer dressed stone with deeper courses to 1659 part.
Plinth. Stone slate roof with chamfered gable copings and ornamental
finials to apexes and eaves. Chamfered ashlar stacks with caps. Two
storeys. Four gabled, front with central 2 storey porch with doorway
with moulded surround and arched lintel. Above is 4-light window, and
to each side of porch, both floors is 2-light window. To right of
porch is lead rainwater head dated 1695. The 2 earlier gabled wings
are similar with one 6-light window to each floor and one 2-light window
in gable apex. A lead rainwater head has initials T.M.P. To the
right of the porch is the hall window of 24 lights (6 lights by 4 lights
high) with king mullion and 3 transoms. 2-light in gable apex. The
right gable has two 4-light windows, with common hood mould, to ground
floor and 5-light window to 1st floor. To the extreme left is a
projecting gabled wing of 1889, in keeping, with mullioned and transomed
2-storey canted bay. To rear is single storey porch with arched lintel
and moulded surround and ball and stalk finials. Cross window over. A
band of shields at high level to right side. All windows double chamfered
and with glazing bars.

The hall is galleried on 3 sides with plasterwork under and to frieze.
Fireplace against screens passage.

Flagged terrace with low ashlar wall with roll-top copings, and with
octagonal tapering, carved piers and corner pinnacles.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1979.

Listing NGR: SE2082226154

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548170

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990