12-15, THE AVENUE

12-15 The Avenue is a former ribbon factory that has been converted into four cottages. Built around 1760, it was altered into cottages by 1770 by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, the 1st Earl of Harewood. The building features punch-dressed stone and a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high with four single cells arranged in a double-depth layout and has eight first-floor windows. The structure includes an ashlar plinth, quoins, and a first-floor sill/impost band. Each bay is marked by giant semicircular-arched recesses that create the appearance of attached pilasters with block capitals supporting the arches. Doorways are located in the recesses of bays 2, 4, 5, and 8, featuring monolithic jambs, while the other bays have three-light flat-faced mullioned windows with slightly recessed mullions. On the first floor, Diocletian windows fill the arches. The roof is hipped with a single ashlar ridge stack, an additional stack on the rear pitch, and an end stack on each hip. This building is part of Carr's original model village.