Priest Hill And Attached Outbuildings

Priest Hill and its attached outbuildings is a house dating from around 1800, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is built from coursed, squared magnesian limestone and features a Westmorland slate roof. The building has two storeys and a main range that consists of two sections with four bays each, along with attached outbuildings on the right side of the northern entrance front.

The entrance front includes a trellised porch that surrounds a margin-glazed door set within a pedimented wooden doorcase. To the right, there is a 20th-century casement window with glazing bars, positioned beneath a round-headed sash window that has Gothick glazing bars. On the first floor to the left, there is a blind oculus. The roof is hipped and features a central brick eaves stack set on a stone plinth.

At the opposite end of the house, there is a mid-19th century one-storey bay-window projection, with a lean-to conservatory on the right and a round-headed sash window above, similar to the others. A central stone eaves stack is also present. The left side of the house, which faces the garden, has projecting stone sills beneath the sash windows, all of which are topped with flat arches and a dentilled wooden cornice.

The kitchen is located in a side wing to the right of the entrance front, connecting to a range of two-storey outbuildings that extend northwards. The western facade of these outbuildings features two round-headed windows with Gothick glazing bars and two older horizontally-sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The roof is made of Welsh slate and sheet asbestos.

Inside the house, there are six-panel doors, a contemporary staircase with square baluster rods and a wreathed handrail, and a later 19th-century landing balustrade. The attached range known as the South Wing is not considered of special interest. In the early 19th century, the property was occupied by the Rhodes family, who were brewers in Wetherby.