Lofthouse Farmhouse

HAREWOOD WIKE LANE SE34SE LS17 (north side, off) SE328431

6/162 Lofthouse Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, flanking pavilions and link walls. c1755 probably by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. Punch-dressed stone, stone slate roofs. Symmetrical composition: central 2-storey 3-bay house, the central bay 3 storeys and breaking forward, flanked by walls linking to 1-storey 1-bay pavilions. Quoins. House: central bay has 3-light flat-faced mullioned window with plain-stone surround and slightly recessed mullions to each floor, that to ground floor has central light altered to doorway with monolithic jambs approached up a short flight of stone steps. Hipped roof with stack-to ridge. Flanking bays have 2-light window to each floor. Hipped roofs. Link walls have ashlar coping. Pavilions each have small blind window with plain-stone surround with small oculus, partly blocked, above. Pyramidal roofs. Rear: central bay of house has 3-light window to each floor. Walls to pavilions had lean-to roofs, one altered to garage, the other gone.

Interior: kitchen, to rear, has stop-chamfered soft wood spine-beam and floor joists. Central room has fireplace with monolithic jambs and basket-arched lintel.

Designed as an eye-catcher from the C18 main entrance to Gawthorp Hall and Harewood House (q.v.): "Lofthouse Farm facing the gate was built in a style to emulate the house", J. M. Robinson, "In Pursuit of Excellence", Country Life, June 28, 1979 pp2113-2115.

Listing NGR: SE3288643085