Gledhow Manor

Heritage listing

Details LEEDS SE3137SW GLEDHOW LANE, Gledhow 714-1/56/699 (North side (off)) 24/07/92 Gledhow Manor GV II Formerly known as: Red House GLEDHOW LANE Chapel Allerton. Includes: No.19 ALLERTON PARK. Large house, later a home for the elderly. 1903. By the firm of FW Bedford and SD Kitson for Major Bagnal, proprietor of Kirkstall Forge. Plinth of axe-faced Hopton Wood stone, walling of 1 and 3/4 inch Woodville sand-faced bricks (Flemish bond) and Ancaster stone dressings, portico columns also of Hopton Wood stone with a 'pecked' face; roofed in 'Arfon' American red slates; hall mantelpiece of various-coloured Derbyshire marbles. 2 storeys, 3 bays to S front, a square plan with L-shaped rear wing to NE which encloses a small courtyard. In a Queen Anne Revival style. Central 3-window bay has a single-storey semicircular portico with paired Ionic columns in antis, paired panelled doors, fanlight with glazing bars flanked by small-pane windows with similar fanlights; 1st-floor windows are small-pane metal casements with original fittings, in keyed eared architraves. The projecting outer bays have quoins and full-height canted bay windows with 5 x 3-pane sashes in flush wood frames to ground floor and glazing bars to 1st floor, moulded stone sills. Stone bands at window sill and lintel levels. Deep wooden modillion eaves cornice, hipped roof, tall corniced end brick stacks. Fire-escape doors have been inserted on the 1st floor of the outer bays to allow access to a walkway across the lead roof of the portico. Rear: large round-arched stair window with glazing bars centre, small-paned windows; the service wing is in a more 'cottage' style, the bricks are slightly smaller, ground-floor windows have brick soldier arches and the upper-floor windows are dormers with shallow segmental

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.