11, The Avenue

HAREWOOD THE AVENUE SE3245 LS17 (north side) 14/141 No 11

30.3.66

GV II*

Former doctor's surgery and house, now house. Early-mid C18 by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Lord Harewood. Punch-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Double-depth. 3 storeys with flanking 2-storey wings. 5-bay symmetrical facade. 1st-floor sill-band, eaves band carried across central 3 bays as 2nd-floor band with open-pedimented gable above. Central and outer bays have giant semicircular-arched recesses the voussoirs aligned to the courses. Central doorway has shouldered swept architrave, consoles and casement-moulded cornice; partly-glazed door with overlight. Flanked by deep 15-pane sash windows with square 9-pane sashes above and smaller 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor with taller 12-pane central sash breaking into tympanum of pedimented gable which has cyma-moulded coping. Outer bays have paired 15-pane sashes with ashlar lintels and sills and small 9-pane segmental-arched windows set in arch above. Wings have hipped roofs. 3 ashlar stacks to rear pitch and gable stack to rear right gable of more utilitarian back range. Right-hand return has tall 21-pane sashed stairwindow to left of doorway with monolithic jambs. Interior: ground-floor rooms retain C18 plaster cornices but C19 fireplaces. Simple C19 dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail. C18 stair to attic has gun-barrel turned balusters. Attic rooms have C18 stone fireplaces with architraves and decorative cast-iron grates. Part of Carr's original model village.

Listing NGR: SE3229745013