Goddards And Attached Gateway, Terrace And Loggia To Side And Rear

Goddards is a house with attached loggia and gateway opening onto a terrace, now serving as the Yorkshire Regional Office of The National Trust. It was built in 1926–27 by W.H. Brierley for Kathleen and Noel Goddard Terry, with gardens by G. Dillistone and plasterwork by G. Bankart.

Construction and Materials

The house is constructed of red brick laid in English bond with black header diaper patterns. The doorcase and oriel window are of ashlar, while the plinth and dressings are of moulded brick. The roofs are hipped, pitched and gabled, covered with tiles and featuring brick corbelled kneelers and banks of tall octagonal stacks in moulded brick. Lead-lined timber guttering sits on iron clamps, and the rainwater goods are of lead with clamps embossed with the initials NTK, the date 1927 and a lion crest. Windows are framed in timber with wooden pegs. The terrace retaining wall is red brick in English bond with bands, strings and coping of moulded brick, and the surface is stone paved, inlaid with cobbles in strips and panels.

Entrance Front

The entrance front comprises a two-storey central range with a two-storey projecting gabled porch, a cross-gabled wing with attic to the left, and a gabled crosswing to the right, both with external gable stacks. The entire composition stands on a high plinth with a moulded string course.

The porch has a moulded and quoined doorcase with a square head and hoodmould, a Tudor arched opening, and spandrels carved with dragons. The double doors are of nail-studded sunk panels. Datestones at the base of the doorcase are inscribed PNLT to the left and KTPT to the right, both dated 27 January 1926. Within the porch is a hemi-domed niche to the left, and the inner front door is panelled, set in a moulded Tudor arched doorcase. On the first floor of the porch is a four-light oriel window with cinquefoiled lights and decorative glazing. The gable finials are tapered and octagonal.

To the left of the door and in the left wing, fenestration is irregular with a two-light double transomed window at the left end of the first floor and one, two or three lights elsewhere. To the right, the ground floor of the centre range has one three-light window flanked by two-light windows, all diamond latticed with moulded brick sills. On the first floor, three windows are of three lights. The wing has one three-light window on the ground floor and a single light on the first floor. Generally, ground floor windows are transomed and have square hoodmoulds, while first floor windows have narrow sills. All are square latticed casements unless indicated otherwise, some with top-hung lights. The gable end chimney stacks are elaborated with decorative brickwork.

Garden Front

The garden front consists of a two-storey three-window main range between shallow projecting cross-gables. The main range extends further to the right for three bays with half-hipped two-light attic dormers. A one-storey loggia projects forward to the right of the right cross-gable, enclosing the terrace.

To the left of the right cross-gable is a glazed garden door in a chamfer-stopped opening beneath a pedimented and return-stopped hoodmould. Ground floor windows are of two, four, five and six transomed lights beneath return-stopped hoodmoulds with pendants. On the first floor, four- and five-light windows in the gables and a three-light window with decorative glazing at the right end are transomed, those in the gables having hoodmoulds as on the ground floor. Others are of four and five lights, one projecting slightly as a false oriel. All windows have narrow moulded brick sills. The left gable apex is pierced by small vents, the right one has a single diamond latticed light beneath a cornice hood, and both are filled with decorative brickwork. Beyond the loggia, windows are mullioned, one at the right end of the first floor being of four transomed lights. Detailing is obscured by Virginia creeper.

The loggia is of two open and one closed bays. The two open bays are trabeated with two square and one cylindrical piers of moulded brick. Within, the floor is of herringbone brick. A Tudor arched opening of two orders at the inner end leads to a small vaulted lobby from which three other arches lead, two with sunk panelled doors, one blind. A similar door and doorway at the outer end leads to the closed bay which has two two-light diamond latticed windows with return-stopped hoodmoulds and a moulded sillstring.

Right Return

The right return is two storeys with four windows, a two-window centre flanked by cross-gabled projecting wings. Except for one one-light and one four-light window in the centre of the first floor, all windows are transomed and have return-stopped hoodmoulds with pendants. The left window in the centre of the ground floor has been altered to a fire escape door with a boarded lower part. Ground floor window sills are formed by the moulded plinth string. The gables have slits in the apex and are filled with lozenge panels of raised brickwork.

Ground Floor Interior

The ground floor features a gallery hall and stairhall, both wainscoted—the gallery to full height, the stairhall to dado height. The hall ceiling is coffered with moulded beams, some coffers having plaster mouldings. The stairhall ceiling is fitted with fielded panelling. Doors are of two moulded panels, in the stairhall set in eared architraves, some with faceted blocks in the ears, one with a broken pediment. Door and window reveals are panelled.

The stairhall is approached through a two-bay Tudor arched screen with spandrels and a frieze carved with floral motifs and flutes. One bay is closed with a balustrade of thick splat balusters and a moulded rail. The staircase to the first floor has a similar balustrade, square newels carved with fretwork on the outer faces and bulbous square pendants and finials.

The drawing room is fully lined with bolection moulded panelling including deep window reveals with window seats over radiators. It has a two-panel door in an eared bolection moulded architrave. The bolection moulded chimneypiece has an enriched moulded cornice shelf and overmantel panel, with a fire surround and fender of polished stone and a stone paved hearth. Semicircular fireplace alcoves are set in eared and keyed round-arched surrounds with shell moulded heads and shaped shelves. Part of the ceiling is segment vaulted, and all parts are decorated with a plaster moulded arabesque frieze of pomegranates and rosettes, panels enclosing flower and foliage sprays, and isolated motifs. The original chandelier and wall light fittings survive.

The dining room is fully lined with fielded panelling incorporating two-panel doors in bolection moulded architraves and four-panel doors in plain architraves, with a panelled window reveal with a window seat over a radiator. The eared chimneypiece has an enriched moulded and dentilled cornice shelf and an overmantel painting in an eared panel. The Tudor arched stone fire surround has carved flowers and flutes, dragons in the spandrels, a moulded stone fender and a paved hearth. There is a moulded and enriched ceiling cornice and an original chandelier.

The former study has a two-panel door in a bolection moulded architrave and stencilled wallpaper, possibly original. The carved wood chimneypiece with fluted jambs, enriched moulded cornice shelf and lively acanthus frieze is probably re-used. It has a metal fireplace in a stone surround with a moulded stone fender and paved hearth.

The former recreation or morning room has four-panel doors in bolection moulded architraves, an eared bolection moulded chimneypiece with a polished stone fireplace, fender and hearth, and a moulded ceiling cornice. A Tudor arched opening leads to a service wing lobby.

The kitchen and other service rooms retain fitted cupboards and drawers, shelving, original sinks and tiling. A bell panel survives and there is a fireplace in the original servants' hall.

First Floor Interior

The gallery openings are Tudor arched as on the ground floor. Doors are two-panelled and window and doorcases are eared with faceted blocks. Window reveals are panelled. Elsewhere doorcases are bolection moulded, some eared, and doors are two- or four-panelled. Some rooms have stone fireplaces with integral fenders and moulded surrounds with cornice shelves; others have metal fireplaces in tiled surrounds. One room retains a built-in corner cupboard fitted with a washbasin. A number of ceilings are deeply coved; two rooms have ceilings segmented by moulded corniced beams; others have moulded cornices.

Attic

Most rooms retain cast-iron fireplaces, some painted woodgrain.

Fittings

The interior of the house is so little altered that fittings have been replaced in only one cloakroom. Others retain original baths, water closets, washbasins and heated towel radiators. Throughout the house original light switches, bell pushes, door and window furniture survive.

Subsidiary Features

A garden wall attached to the right return is approximately four metres high, on a moulded plinth between square section terminal piers encircled by moulded brick strings. The coping is stepped up over the gateway. A chamfered Tudor arched gateway leads to the terrace. The terrace retaining wall is approximately 1.5 metres high with a moulded plinth, moulded brick strings and flat coping. Square piers are continuous with the wall.

Historical Significance

This house is the finest surviving example of the work of Walter Brierley, the Lutyens of the north.