Morwick Hall

Morwick Hall is a house that has been converted into offices. It was built in the mid to late 18th century for Edward Gray, who served as Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1749 and 1768. The building features punch-dressed stone on the sides, rear, and in a later extension, with stone slate roofs. The main structure consists of five bays, with an added single-storey front range and a ten-bay extension to the left. The left-hand three bays are two storeys high, while the rest are three storeys.

The main house has a symmetrical facade with rusticated quoins and raised floor bands. The added ground-floor bay also has rusticated quoins, and it features a central projecting porch with an open pediment supported by large consoles. The doorway has monolithic jambs and a glazed fanlight. On either side of the porch are two bays of windows with raised plain stone surrounds. Above, each floor has windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills, with a pedimented gable over the central three bays that includes a blind plaque in a raised architrave.

The extension has a continuous matching band and windows, all fitted with 12-pane sashes, while the second floor has smaller 6-pane sashes. The original house has two coupled ridge stacks at the center and two additional ridge stacks on the extension. At the rear, the original house features three wide bays with a central hooded doorway, topped by a tall arched stair window. The windows on either side have stone lintels and projecting sills.

Inside, much of the interior dates from the 19th century. The stair hall has four doorways leading off, each with architraves and carved doorheads decorated with a shell motif and a cherub supporting a cartouche featuring the Grey coat of arms. The doors are six-panel designs. A segmental archway with pilasters leads to a dog-leg open-string cantilevered staircase, which has fluted mahogany newels, a ramped handrail, and two slender turned balusters for each riser. The staircase features bracketed tread ends, a dado rail, a simple plaster cornice, and a circular boss over the stairwell.