The Mansion Gotts Park

The Mansion, Gott's Park, located on Armley Ridge Road in Upper Armley, is a country house that has been converted into offices and a clubhouse. Originally built in 1781 for Thomas Woolrick, it was remodeled between 1810 and 1820 by Robert Smirke for Benjamin Gott. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof in the Greek Revival style. It stands two storeys tall with three bays and has single-storey curved wings on either side.

The east front showcases a projecting portico with giant fluted Ionic columns that support an entablature and pediment, enclosing a wide two-storey canted bay. It features sash windows and a continuous first-floor sill band, with three round-arched windows in the flanking wings, along with a cornice and parapet, and balustraded side wings. Tall corniced stacks rise behind the ridge.

On the west front, there is a parallel two-storey block with three windows and a hipped roof, displaying mid-19th century features. This includes a single-storey glazed ashlar porch with pilasters, deep eaves on stone brackets, architraves to the windows, a sill band, eaves cornice, and a blocking course, along with tall corniced end stacks. The outer wings were demolished in the mid-20th century. There is a sunken service courtyard of apsidal design at the northern end.

Inside, the entrance hall features a black and white chequered stone floor and egg-and-dart mouldings on the cornices. A two-flight cantilevered staircase has a covered balustrade and a ramped handrail, with a segmental arch; on the landing, there are paired columns in antis with fluted capitals. The principal rooms have not been seen. Notable features of the house include Gott's cast-iron service stair and a fire-proof structure comprising cast-iron beams that support vaulted masonry floors and cast-iron panelled doors. This building is recognized as the first Greek Revival house built in West Yorkshire.