Numbers 11 And 13 And Attached Garden Gates And Railings

Numbers 11 and 13 and attached garden gates and railings are a house and cottage built in 1858 by James Simpson of Leeds. They were designed as accommodation for the Headmaster and Chapel-keeper of the adjacent Wesleyan Methodist school and chapel. The houses are constructed of grey-cream mottled brick in an English garden-wall bond, with ashlar dressings, door and window surrounds, and a cornice. They have a slate roof, stone coping and brick stacks.

The front has a two-storey, five-window facade. Both houses have renewed panelled front doors under segment-headed overlights, with distinctive doorcases – No.11 has a shouldered architrave with a keyblock, and No.13 has a pilastered doorcase with moulded imposts, a stilted segmental arch, a keyblock and a moulded cornice hood. The windows are segment-headed 4-pane sashes with painted stone sills on the ground floor and a sill band with block brackets on the first floor. Intermediate windows are narrower than the end and centre ones. A moulded eaves cornice returns at each end. The rear elevation features three parallel gabled wings with 12-pane sash windows set within brick arches and painted stone sills. The interior was not inspected.

A low brick garden wall is topped by turned cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys tips and standards with ball finials.