Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. House, hotel, school. 3 related planning applications.
Beechfield, Glebe House, Oxpark House and Riverside
- WRENN ID
- low-lime-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- House, hotel, school
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A hotel, later used as schools and now comprising four private dwellings, was built around 1790 for Kelita Kitchen and Company. The building is constructed of ashlar magnesian limestone with a stone slate roof. It is three storeys high with basements and has a symmetrical front of 1:7:1 bays, with the central bays recessed. An attached single-storey outbuilding is located on the right return.
The central bays feature segmentally-arched basement windows behind an iron and wooden balustrade that rises to a central doorway. The doorway has a panelled double door and fanlight with decorative glazing bars, set within an open-pedimented wooden porch. Bay eight has a six-panel door beneath a casement window with glazing bars, and a canopy. Otherwise, all other bays have projecting stone sills to sash windows with glazing bars under flat arches. The projecting end bays each have a tripartite ground-floor sash window of two, twelve, and two panes, with a recessed round-arched panel over the central light. The first-floor sash window is flanked by blind recessed panels and features a round-arched recessed panel above. A similar second-floor window is present, but without the arched panel. The roof is hipped with two yellow-brick ridge stacks and two cement-rendered ridge stacks.
A brick lean-to addition is set back on the right, connecting to a gabled outbuilding with a sash window under a flat arch and a ridge stack. The left return, which serves as the entrance front to Beechfield, has four bays. A six-panel door and six-pane overlight are located in bay two, within a 20th-century neo-classical porch; the other bays on each floor have sash windows with glazing bars.
The interior of Oxpark House has a large entrance hall with a staircase featuring a turned newel and square baluster rods. A similar style staircase is also present in Beechfield, and one-panel doors are featured throughout. The building operated as a hotel until 1797, when it was taken over for use as a school until 1818. Subsequently, it was divided into smaller schools and dwellings. The gabled outbuilding attached on the right may have served as a spa-water pump room, given its location directly above the source and on the cliff above the later Spa Bath House of 1834.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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