2-5, THE AVENUE

This is a former chapel, cottages, and bothy for woodsmen employed on the Harewood Estate, dating from the mid-to-late 18th century and designed by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. The building has been converted into four houses. Constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof, it is arranged over two storeys and has attics to the wings. The symmetrical facade has eight bays. The outer two bays are taller and project slightly. Features include an ashlar plinth, a first-floor band, and eaves bands which continue as impost bands on the wings. The outer bays each have a doorway with a monolithic lintel to one side of a window. Above the doorways are two semicircular-arched recesses, containing flat-arched windows with voussoirs, and segment-headed windows to the attic within the archway. The central four bays have two doorways flanking two windows, with four windows above, all with monolithic lintels cut with false voussoirs. Most windows have been altered, although two original Yorkshire sash windows survive to the first floor of No. 4. A central ridge stack is present, and the wings have hipped roofs with ridge stacks. This building originally formed part of Carr's planned model village.