Description

SE33NW
714-1/7/705
05/08/76

LEEDS
JACKSON AVENUE, Gledhow
(North side (off))
Roundhay Hall Hospital
(Formerly Listed as:
THORN LANE, Gledhow
Roundhay Hall Hospital)

GV
II

Mansion, now private hospital. c1835. Attributed to John
Clark, for John Goodman. Ashlar, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 3
bays, in Neo-Classical style, broad corner pilasters and
centre rusticated.
West front: large central entrance portico with giant
Corinthian columns supporting pediment with acroteria, large
doorway in moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets.
Moulded architraves to windows, 6-pane casements, cornices to
ground floor. Moulded string course at ground-floor and
1st-floor sill levels; modillion eaves cornice, blocking
course with central coat of arms and paired chimneys with
cylindrical moulded shafts, ornate cast-iron panels missing.
Hipped roof with moulded stacks. Right return: 2:3:2 windows,
centre projects with ground floor semicircular bay with
Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature and parapet with
cast-iron panels forming balcony to 1st floor centre 3-light
window.
INTERIOR: paired glass doors, bronze traceried overlight,
mosaic and marble floor to lobby; staircase hall has
geometric-pattern mosaic floor and fine divided staircase with
bronze-colour ornate balustrade, wall niches, coved ceiling.
Principal front room has deep scrolled plasterwork to cornice,
fireplace with bolection-moulded marble surround.
The home of Edward Allen, first Lord Brotherton, whose library
became the nucleus of the Leeds University library; later a
hospital for women.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-: 83).

Listing NGR: SE3207437425

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Roundhay Hall Hospital at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26655851

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets