Description

LEEDS

SE2736NE CASTLE GROVE DRIVE, Far Headingley
714-1/59/650 (North side (off))
08/03/82 Castle Grove Masonic Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
MOOR ROAD, Headingley
Castle Grove Masonic Hall)

II

Large house, now masonic hall. 1839, additions c1890 and 1934.
For Samuel Holmes; major additions and re-ordering c1890 by T
Butler Wilson. Coursed squared ashlar-finished gritstone,
slate roof, lead covered dome.
Facade of 3 phases: 2-storey, 3-bay centre (1839) with
single-storey Tuscan porch, added canted bay windows to ground
floor; a pair of matching lateral extensions of taller 2
storeys, 2 bays each with round-headed windows to ground floor
and balustrade (c1890); a further 2-bay extension to left,
matching and with a domed stairwell, same date.
Rear: extensive additions 1934 including Masonic temple over
banqueting room. Right return: the left bay is semicircular
with paired windows flanking a chimney stack.
INTERIOR: the 1890s work included a major refurbishment of all
the rooms on the ground floor. A narrow entrance lobby with
plaster cornice and ceiling opens into the elaborate
full-height circulation hall with dark green marble or
composite Ionic pillars and pilasters carrying a very heavy
timber entablature above which is a series of round-headed
openings, blind on 2 sides, separated by terms which support a
deep modillion cornice; segmental coffered barrel ceiling with
deep ribs and square panels infilled with large moulded flower
heads. At the right end a large marble fireplace with added
bolection-moulded architrave; at the left end a heavy timber
staircase with wide moulded ramped handrail and thick
balusters.
Ground-floor rooms: to right front, a long room with panelled
doors in eared architrave with deep cornice and swags and
flowers in relief, scrolled and panelled plaster ceiling with
sun-burst female masks, E end fireplace with marble and wooden
surround with female masks. Right extension room has an
apsidal end with raised floor, heavy Baroque-style plaster
ceiling with Chinese masks and grotesques, carved wooden
screen in vaguely Jacobean style, panelled walls, large stone
fireplace with overmantel.
To left of entrance the long probably former dining room has
carved architraves to doors, large wooden fireplace with

twisted columns and deep cornice over, the floor of patterned
inlaid wood blocks, heavy Baroque-style plaster ceiling with
Tudor roses, Chinese and Classical motifs.
First floor: several rooms, now lodge 'temples', have traces
of the 1839 decoration including: S side, coved ceiling with
egg-and-dart moulding, a fine inlaid wood fireplace and
panelled window reveals in room referred to as former library;
E side, room with apsidal end has a plaster Rococo-style
fireplace and a corner entrance with curved double doors
carved with swags and Classical motifs, original fittings.
Samuel Holmes was a Leeds linen merchant of Park Square.

Listing NGR: SE2785036997

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547256

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