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Latitude: 53.7302 / 53°43'48"N
Longitude: -1.3823 / 1°22'56"W
OS Eastings: 440846
OS Northings: 426160
OS Grid: SE408261
Mapcode National: GBR LTS9.JK
Mapcode Global: WHDBZ.QHYP
Plus Code: 9C5WPJJ9+33
Entry Name: Dunford House
Listing Date: 5 June 1964
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135667
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342074
ID on this website: 101135667
Location: Whitwood Mere, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Kippax and Methley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Methley St Oswald
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House
SE 42 NW
7/84
5th June 1964
ROTHWELL LS26
GREEN LANE
(east side, off)
Methley
Dunford House
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C18. Brick with stone dressings, stone
slate roof. Rectangular plan of shallow double depth. Three storeys and
5 bays, in classical style, symmetrical; in the centre a doorway and 1st
floor Venetian window with architraves linked by an intermediate panel, the
doorway wide with pilaster jambs, triglyph frieze, and moulded cornice, the
Venetian window with Gibbs-style banded head to the centre and Tuscan
architraves to the side lights, which are ogee-headed; at 2nd floor above
this, a Diocletian window; otherwise, all windows sashed, with moulded sills
and gauged brick heads containing triple keystones, those at ground and
1st floors all 12-paned and those at 2nd floor square, with 6 panes.
Modillioned cornice, gable copings with kneelers, gable chimneys. Right-hand
gable wall has doorway with modern porch at rear corner, a triple sash above
this and 6-pane sash at 2nd floor; each gable has a fluted rainwater head to
the returned end of the gutter cornice. The rear has inter alia a central
round-headed stairlight, various blocked former openings and marks of a
former rear extension.
Interior: contemporary fittings and decoration of unusually fine quality
including: panelled doors with shouldered architraves and cornices; open-well
staircase with curved brackets, open string, 3 balusters per tread and ramped
handrail with wreathed curtail; moulded plaster cornices (some modillioned
and others with egg-and-dart); and fireplaces with shouldered architraves.
Listing NGR: SE4084626160
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