Former lodge to Newton Hall with gate piers and flanking wall

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LEEDS, Potternewton, CHAPELTOWN ROAD (West side), No. 315 (Former lodge to Newton Hall) with gate piers and flanking wall

(Formerly listed as Offices of Central Let Property Management with gate piers and flanking wall)

GV II

Lodge to Newton Hall, now offices, with gate piers and short flanking walls on roadside to N. Dated 1856. Rock-faced ashlar, ashlar details, decorative slate roof, walls and piers of ashlar. Single storey over cellar, 1 x 2 bays. Plinth. Gothic Revival style. Entrance on N front: doorway right with moulded round arch and carved date plaque over; to left a 2-light moulded mullioned window, string course and band of red and cream tiles above; gable over with circular panel of blue, red and white tiles in flower pattern with star of David and cross; gable coping with vase and ball finials. Restored sash frames throughout. Left return (to road): 2 cellar openings with pierced cast-iron panels; 1- and 2-light windows, round-arched dormer left, gable right has a circular plaque carved with ivy leaves. Elaborate cast-iron rainwater pipes have raised diagonal bands and are enclosed by string course and plinth. A tall chimney with linked triple octagonal flues straddles the ridge, centre. Facade to St Martin's View: cellar opening with panel, small square-headed window, drip-mould and tile band, small pierced panel in the coped gable, vase with ball finials. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate piers: approx 1.5m high, square section, moulded plinth, cornice, shaped capstone, no finial. The wall to each side of the piers is monolithic and has a moulded coping, overall length of wall and gateway approx 8m. HISTORICAL NOTE: the lodge dates from the rebuilding of Newton Hall (demolished) while in the occupation of Arthur Lupton whose family owned the Town's End cloth dressing mill in 1788. In 1845 Darnton Lupton, mayor of Leeds, described how he had moved from the polluted air of the town centre to Potternewton c1840; Arthur's brothers, Francis and Darnton, developed the grounds S of the hall as a building speculation and the lodge was cut off from the house by the time Church of St Martin, St Martin's View (qv) was built, 1879. (Thoresby Society Publication Vols LX & LXI, Nos.131 & 132: Beresford MW: East End, West End, The Face of Leeds 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 293; Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SE3085436270