Stank Cottages And Linking Outbuildings

HAREWOOD SANDY GATE SE3044 LS17 (east side, off), Stank 13/126 Nos 6, 7 and 8 30.3.66 Stank Cottages and linking outbuilding

GV II

Row of 3 estate workers' cottages and linking outbuilding. Mid-late C18 by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. Punch-dressed stone, stone slate roof. T-shaped pavilion (No 8) with L-shaped range attached to rear: single-storey outbuildings to north, linking to Nos 6 and 7 which are at right angles. Quoins. No 8, 2 bays: wing, to left, has flat-arched window with voussoirs and projecting sill to each floor. Taller, pediment-gabled pavilion breaks forward: quoins, ashlar ground-floor band, single flat-arched window set in arched recess with impost band. Coped pedimented gable with rear gable stack. Right-hand return has central doorway with tie-stone chamfered jambs. Sill band, a continuation of impost band. Square window. All windows altered to casements. Attached to rear outbuilding has 9 doorways with tie-stone jambs the lintels aligned to the slope of the ground, bays 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9 altered to windows. At right angles, No 6 and 7: 6 bays. Quoins. Outer bays have doorways with tie-stone jambs. Other bays have square windows with plain- stone surrounds. 1st-floor 2nd- and 3rd-bay windows linked by long ashlar sill and lintel bands perhaps intended to facilitate a larger window for cottage industry. Coped gables with kneelers. 2 ridge stacks. Part of a balanced composition with No 4 and Nos 1, 2 and 3.

Listing NGR: SE3046844743