Description

LEEDS

SE23SE TEMPLE CRESCENT, Beeston Hill
714-1/10/541 (North side (off))
07/10/85 The Manor House, Cad Beeston
(Formerly Listed as:
BEESTON HILL
No.8, Cad Beeston)
(Formerly Listed as:
BEESTON HILL
No.9, Cad Beeston)

GV II*

House, now offices. Early C15, with early C19 additions to NW.
The whole group restored 1985.
The original timber-framed structure surviving is of 2 bays,
composed of a high (restored) stone sill wall, the principal
posts set originally on stylobates. Deep curved braces from
the principals support the wall-plate, no longer at eaves
level because the pitch of the roof has been reduced. The
much-restored walling above the stonework is infilled with a
horizontal timber (bressumer) and short vertical studs. Wooden
glazing bars re-use earlier mortices and peg holes. A very
large har-hung oak door (post-1985) has been set in on the
right, with a corresponding door on the rear suggesting a
cross-passage.
INTERIOR: a 'period' staircase has been built inside the
entrance and there is much replaced timber; wall posts are
chamfered on the inner face; spine beams supporting the upper
floor (?C17) have scarfed joints above the S end wall
fireplace. The upper floor is reached from the staircase in
the S-facing bay and the roof is open. The trusses are the C15
form recorded in York buildings: a cambered tie beam, central
crown post held by downward-curving braces and carrying the
collar purlin which extend the full length of the range and on
which the collars and common rafters rest. The medieval hall
was open to the roof; the roof pitch was probably altered when
a floor was inserted.
Attached former terraced cottages, now offices, have some
re-used timbers in roof; stone walls and rendered brick,
Classical door surround with cornice and blocking course, 2
tripartite sashes to each floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the C12 manor of Beeston was held in 2 parts,
William Paynel owning Cad Beeston; by the C15 the de Rome
family was in possession, Peter de Rome being Lord of the
Manor in 1425. Dendrochronology has provided a date of AD1420
for the timbers.

Now offices of Bradlor Developments Ltd.
(Beeston Local History Society: Beeston, Rediscovered
Heritage: 1992-: 60).

Listing NGR: SE2922931429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17565091

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