The Cardigan Arms Public House

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SE2734 KIRKSTALL ROAD, Burley 714-1/28/1287 (North side) 21/04/94 No.364 The Cardigan Arms Public House

GV II

Public house with former brewhouse and stables. Public house dated 1893, brewhouse/stables contemporary, altered C20. Public house: coursed rock-faced gritstone, slate roof. 3 storeys over cellars, corner site with 4 bays, right bay projects slightly and is gabled, and wide 3-bay gabled facade on left return, to Greenhow Road. Elaborate Italianate style, sash windows with plate glass throughout. Central etched-glass panelled doors with overlight, 3-light mullioned windows to ground floor, glazing with 'VAULTS' and 'SMOKE ROOM' and coats of arms; keyed round arches to upper-floor windows, oriel bay window left with coloured glass panel; 2 round-arched dormer windows with moulded pediments left, paired windows in gable right, 2 square terracotta panels above with dates: '1355' and '1893', moulded segmental pediment with coat of arms and motto: 'EN GOAGE AFFIE'. Tall moulded stacks. INTERIOR: large central foyer with glazed double doors, tiled walls, possibly original embossed wallpaper, glazed partitions with carved Classical details, open staircase; 4 rooms open off, small rear room, all with original woodwork and glass decoration, etched and brilliant-cut glass, ornate wood and tile fireplaces; first-floor function room, 'Harmonic Room' on etched glass door. Left return: fenestration style as front, coat of arms and VAULTS in glazing right, ornate scrolled window lintels to 2nd floor, moulded gable coping, ball finials. Added single-storey bay left. Brew house and stables with small house in rear wing of public house encloses the rear yard. Glossy red brick, slate roofs. 3-storey brewery building has 2 doors to Greenhow Walk, a large boarded opening to 1st and 2nd floors, moulded brick eaves brackets, kneelers and gable coping left, stump of internal chimney stack right; inserted doorway to Greenhow Road; yard facade not seen in detail but top floor with gable above, right. Lower 2-storey, 2-bay stables have window ground-floor centre and upper floor, left, yard facade not seen; public house rear wing is 2 storeys, 2 bays with central door and mullioned windows to ground floor, sashes above. Named after the major land-owner in Headingley/Burley, the

Earl of Cardigan; street building began in the 1870s in this area, streets to S and E of Church of St Matthias (qv) 1887-89, and the Cardigans (S side of Kirkstall Road) and Greenhows in 1896-1900. (Aitken, Revd LR: The Story of Burley Parish Church 1854-1954 (leaflet)).

Listing NGR: SE2759234546