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Roundhay Hall Hospital

A Grade II Listed Building in Roundhay, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8321 / 53°49'55"N

Longitude: -1.5141 / 1°30'50"W

OS Eastings: 432074

OS Northings: 437425

OS Grid: SE320374

Mapcode National: GBR BR6.82

Mapcode Global: WHC96.QY53

Plus Code: 9C5WRFJP+R8

Entry Name: Roundhay Hall Hospital

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375029

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465909

Also known as: Roundhay Hall
Allerton Hall

ID on this website: 101375029

Location: Gledhow, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Roundhay

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Roundhay St Edmund

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE33NW
714-1/7/705
05/08/76

LEEDS
JACKSON AVENUE, Gledhow
(North side (off))
Roundhay Hall Hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
THORN LANE, Gledhow
Roundhay Hall Hospital)

GV
II

Mansion, now private hospital. c1835. Attributed to John
Clark, for John Goodman. Ashlar, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 3
bays, in Neo-Classical style, broad corner pilasters and
centre rusticated.
West front: large central entrance portico with giant
Corinthian columns supporting pediment with acroteria, large
doorway in moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets.
Moulded architraves to windows, 6-pane casements, cornices to
ground floor. Moulded string course at ground-floor and
1st-floor sill levels; modillion eaves cornice, blocking
course with central coat of arms and paired chimneys with
cylindrical moulded shafts, ornate cast-iron panels missing.
Hipped roof with moulded stacks. Right return: 2:3:2 windows,
centre projects with ground floor semicircular bay with
Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature and parapet with
cast-iron panels forming balcony to 1st floor centre 3-light
window.
INTERIOR: paired glass doors, bronze traceried overlight,
mosaic and marble floor to lobby; staircase hall has
geometric-pattern mosaic floor and fine divided staircase with
bronze-colour ornate balustrade, wall niches, coved ceiling.
Principal front room has deep scrolled plasterwork to cornice,
fireplace with bolection-moulded marble surround.
The home of Edward Allen, first Lord Brotherton, whose library
became the nucleus of the Leeds University library; later a
hospital for women.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-: 83).

Listing NGR: SE3207437425

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