Leventhorpe Cottages

SE 32 NE SWILLINGTON NEMSAM GREEN ROAD LS26 (west side, off)

6/53 Leventhorpe Cottages 27th October 1976 II

Former stables to Leventhorpe Hall, now partitioned and altered as dwellings. Dated 1856 on inner side of entrance arch. Magnesian limestone with dressings of the same, slate roof. U-plan round a courtyard facing west with a screen wall and entrance arch closing the 4th side, and a domestic wing attached to the north-east corner. Single-storey, symmetrical; semicircular entrance arch with impost bands, horse-mask keystone, and ornamental cresting on the apex; pedimented gables to the wings, each with a round-headed window breaking into the pediment and fielded panel flanking the window (left gable rendered below the band, with an inserted window), and a 2-flue chimney on the apex of the gable. Inside the courtyard the main range has a segmental-headed wagon door on each side (that on the right altered as a window), a round-headed blind window in the centre; and, rising above this, a 3-stage bell-tower with achievement of arms to the first stage, circular clock-face to the second, and octagonal bellcote with cornice, donical roof and ornamental weather-vane. The wings (and the domestic wing outside) have impost bands to round-headed windows and doors. Low-pitched roofs, that to the main range hipped, the others with stone coping to the gables.

Listing NGR: SE3704629956