Description

LEEDS

SE2536 ABBEY ROAD, Kirkstall
714-1/18/890 (South side (off))
05/08/76 Kirkstall Forge: former cottages,
now offices
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY ROAD, Kirkstall
(South side)
Directors' Dining Room (former
cottages) NW of E gateway at
Kirkstall Forge)

GV II

2 cottages and screen wall with gate pier. Late C18, altered
C19. Probably for Beecroft and Butler families. Coursed
squared gritstone, slate roof.
2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Quoins to right. Doorway,
now window, to left in each bay, tie-stone jambs left, plain
surround right. 2 large square windows to ground floor, both
have lowered sill; 3-light flat-faced mullion windows to upper
floor, the right window rebuilt. Brick stacks to right of each
bay. Screen wall extends to right, approx 3m high, rounded
coping, approx 4m long, doorway, now window left; a loophole
right and plaque recording insertion during the Second World
War; to right again a gate pier of rusticated ashlar with ball
finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE2521436484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548125

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)