Priest Hill And Attached Outbuildings

SE34NE WETHERBY AINSTY ROAD LS 22 (north side, off)

1/1 Priest Hill and attached outbuildings

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House, shown as on Quarry Hill Lane on OS map. c1800 with mid C19 alterations. Coursed, squared magnesian limestone, Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 x 4-bay main range with attached outbuildings on right of northern entrance front. Entrance front: trellised porch encloses margin- glazed door in pedimented wooden doorcase; C20 casement with glazing bars on right beneath a round-headed, unequally-hung sash window with Gothick glazing bars; to lst-floor left is blind oculus; hipped roof with central, brick eaves stack on stone plinth. Opposite end of house has a mid-C19 1-storey bay-window projection with lean-to conservatory on right and round-headed sash window over as before; central, stone, eaves stack. Left return (garden front): all bays have projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars beneath flat arches; dentilled wooden cornice. Kitchen in side wing on right of entrance front forms link to a range of 2-storey outbuildings which project northwards; their western facade has 2 round-headed windows with Gothick glazing bars and 2 old horizontally-sliding sashes with glazing bars; Welsh slate and sheet asbestos roof. Interior of house 6-panel doors; contemporary staircase with square baluster rods and wreathed handrail, later C19 landing balustrade. Attached range known as South Wing not of special interest. Occupied in the early C19 by the Rhodes family, brewers of Wetherby (Unwin, p.90). R. Unwin,Wetherby, 1986.

Listing NGR: SE3979649444