Roundhay Hall Hospital

SE33NW 714-1/7/705 05/08/76

LEEDS JACKSON AVENUE, Gledhow (North side (off)) Roundhay Hall Hospital (Formerly Listed as: THORN LANE, Gledhow Roundhay Hall Hospital)

GV II

Mansion, now private hospital. c1835. Attributed to John Clark, for John Goodman. Ashlar, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays, in Neo-Classical style, broad corner pilasters and centre rusticated. West front: large central entrance portico with giant Corinthian columns supporting pediment with acroteria, large doorway in moulded architrave and cornice on console brackets. Moulded architraves to windows, 6-pane casements, cornices to ground floor. Moulded string course at ground-floor and 1st-floor sill levels; modillion eaves cornice, blocking course with central coat of arms and paired chimneys with cylindrical moulded shafts, ornate cast-iron panels missing. Hipped roof with moulded stacks. Right return: 2:3:2 windows, centre projects with ground floor semicircular bay with Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature and parapet with cast-iron panels forming balcony to 1st floor centre 3-light window. INTERIOR: paired glass doors, bronze traceried overlight, mosaic and marble floor to lobby; staircase hall has geometric-pattern mosaic floor and fine divided staircase with bronze-colour ornate balustrade, wall niches, coved ceiling. Principal front room has deep scrolled plasterwork to cornice, fireplace with bolection-moulded marble surround. The home of Edward Allen, first Lord Brotherton, whose library became the nucleus of the Leeds University library; later a hospital for women. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 83).

Listing NGR: SE3207437425