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12-15, the Avenue

A Grade II* Listed Building in Harewood, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9003 / 53°54'0"N

Longitude: -1.5102 / 1°30'36"W

OS Eastings: 432282

OS Northings: 445009

OS Grid: SE322450

Mapcode National: GBR KRWB.VM

Mapcode Global: WHC90.S71B

Plus Code: 9C5WWF2Q+4W

Entry Name: 12-15, the Avenue

Listing Date: 30 March 1966

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1265739

English Heritage Legacy ID: 424040

ID on this website: 101265739

Location: Harewood, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS17

County: Leeds

Civil Parish: Harewood

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Collingham St Oswald with Harewood

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


HAREWOOD THE AVENUE
SE3245 LS17 (north side)

14/142 Nos 12-15 (consec)

30.3.66

GV II*

Former ribbon factory, now 4 cottages. c1760 altered to cottages by 1770, by
John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. Punch-dressed stone,
stone slate roof. 4 single cells, double-depth. 2 storeys. 8 first-floor
windows. Ashlar plinth, quoins and 1st-floor sill/impost band. Each bay
articulated by giant semicircular-arched recess giving the impression of
attached pilasters with block capitals which support the arches. Set in the
recesses doorways in bays 2, 4, 5 and 8 with monolithic jambs. Other bays have
3-light flat-faced mullioned window with slightly recessed mullions. 1st floor:
Diocletian windows filling the arches. Hipped roof with single ashlar ridge
stack, other stack to rear pitch and end stack to each hip.
Part of Carr's original model village.

N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1979) p244.


Listing NGR: SE3228245009

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