Woodleigh Hall

SE 23 NW 8/34 4.3.1983

AIREBOROU6H WOODLANDS DRIVE LS19 Rawdon Woodleigh Hall

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Large house, now Health Authority training school. Dated 1869 on porch. L-shaped plan. Two storeys and attics, in early Renaissance style with mullion-and-transom windows, and shaped gables. Elaborate centrepiece consisting of a porch with coupled Corinthian columns, enriched entablature and parapet capped by finials; first-floor stage with a window of two round- headed lights within a round-headed frame, flanked by coupled tapered pilasters; and a square tower with two round-headed lights to each face, framed by pilaster-strips having faceted rustication and standing over coupled brackets, a bracketed cornice and open work parapet capped by finials. At the right-hand end of the facade a semicircular oriel to the first floor. The left return wall has a loggia of Tuscan columns with faceted rustication. At the right-hand end is a 6-bay conservatory with projecting 3-bay bowed centre, full-length windows between narrow pillars with faceted rustication, and entablature with finials over the pillars, and a wrought-iron framed roof with scrolled decoration.

Interior: features include a two-storey top-lit hall containing a timber staircase with arcaded balustrade and panelled dado, and a first-floor arcade; and elaborate compartmented ceilings, one with bas-relief inserts and painted decoration.

Listing NGR: SE2200238299