12-15, The Avenue is a Grade II* listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. A Georgian Factory, cottage.
12-15, The Avenue
- WRENN ID
- standing-vault-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- Factory, cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 12-15, The Avenue, Harewood
- OS grid reference
- SE 322 450
- Coordinates
- 53.90026, -1.5102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
12-15, The Avenue receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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