Description

AIREBOROUGH TOWN STREET
SE 14 SE
LS20 (west side)
Guiseley)
4/79 No. 55
- (Manor House)
GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1681 on lintel; altered. Large dressed
sandstone blocks in graduated courses with quoins, stone slate roof.
Two-unit central-lobby-entry plan. Two storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical;
continuous dripmould over ground-floor openings, stepped over door; on each
side a recessed 4-light mullioned window (each lacking the centre mullion),
and at left end evidence of a former single-light window; at 1st floor a
double-chamfered single-light window above the door, and on each side a
3-light window with plain surround and flat-faced flush mullions; to right of
centre window, a square sundial dated 1683 (probably ex situ, because out of
orientation); large corniced ridge chimney in line with door, chimney and
gable coping with kneelers at right-hand gable; stone slate roof continuous
with Nos. 53 and 51 to left (q.v.); but another chimney at junction.

Interior: housebody in left-hand room has large and very fine stone fireplace
with corbelled segmental arch, the corbels cut in one piece with the
outermost vousoirs, stepped voussoirs and moulded cornice; large longitudinal
chamfered beam, and chamfered joists, all with triangular stops.
(Longitudinal partition wall inserted towards rear makes rear service rooms).

History: said to have been built as house for schoolmaster of Guiseley.

Listing NGR: SE1944142408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552760

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)