Description

LEEDS

SE33NW MANSION LANE, Roundhay
714-1/7/1058 (South side)
19/10/51 The Mansion Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
ROUNDHAY PARK, Roundhay
The Mansion Hotel (Roundhay Mansion))

II

Formerly known as: Roundhay Park Mansion Roundhay.
Large mansion, now hotel. Built by 1826, altered late C19 and
C20. By John Clark. For Thomas Nicholson. Neoclassical style.
Ashlar, slate roof.
2 storeys, 7 bays. Centre 3 bays have impressive portico with
4 giant fluted Ionic columns supporting a pediment. Corner
pilasters to full height. Entablature with cornice and
parapet. Sash windows with glazing bars, ground-floor French
casements. Rear: 2-storey, 5-bay service wing.
Left return: 6 bays, bay 5 entrance with Ionic columns
supporting flat-roofed porch with moulded cornice and blocking
course, flanking pilasters; segmental bay with margin lights
to windows right, bays 1 and 2 break forward, the left end a
2-window wing with a mid C19 conservatory built into the
angle. The conservatory of 5 bays with a canted 3-bay west
end, round-arched bays, 2 ventilators to ridge. Right return:
5 windows, entrance with Ionic porch and flanking pilasters,
segmental bay left.
INTERIOR: the E side entrance opens into a lobby with arched
niche on right, wide segmental-arched doorway with fluted
Ionic pilasters, fan motif in tympanum. Staircase hall beyond
has a fine stone cantilevered divided staircase with ornate
wrought-iron lattice balustrade and wooden moulded handrail,
elliptical dormer over oval glazed well with Adam-style
cornice and ceiling rose, massive brass chandelier. On the
landing, left and right segmental-arched doorways with fluted
pilasters, Ionic capitals. Ground-floor front rooms now
restaurant with original fireplace (not seen in detail);
conservatory has 5 elaborate roof trusses with iron tension
bars and pendants.
1st-floor rooms include: left, fireplace with reeded surround,
moulded dado rail, lit by the bowed bay window at end; right,
fluted architraves, Ionic capitals, segmental arches, no
fireplace surviving; west-facing rooms retain 2 marble
fireplaces with fluted decoration.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1803 Roundhay Park was sold by the 17th
Baron Stourton to Thomas Nicholson of Chapel Allerton, a

London banker; he laid out the park and probably began the
building of the house, the architect John Clark's earliest
surviving building in West Yorkshire. On the death of William
Nicholson in 1868 the estate was sold and the mansion and park
bought by John Barran for Leeds Corporation. The intention was
to retain 150 acres as park and sell the remainder for
housing. The architect George Corson won the competition for
the development of the Leeds suburb in 1873. The park was
opened in 1872.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-: 123).

Listing NGR: SE3302838261

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655971

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House