Cross Hall-West And Cross Hall-East

SE 22 NE MORLEY LS27 BRUNTCLIFFE ROAD (North side) 1166/2/10001 Cross Hall-West and Cross Hall-East

GV II

House, now two dwellings. Late C17, with additions c.1770 and c.1830, porch added c.1900 and late C20 alterations. Coursed stone and ashlar with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Various stone stacks. 2 storey. Main south front has 4 window early C19 wing to left. Off-centre doorway has 4-panel door in pointed and chamfered surround with Gothic overlight and single lancet side-lights all under a moulded hood. Either side single large 3-light cross mullion windows, with to left a further 2-light cross casement. Above alternating 2-light and 3-light cross casement windows, above the right window a gable with tiny lancet. To right 5 window early C18 wing. Central doorway with gabled glazed porch added c1900 and either side single 3-light C20 casement windows in flush ashlar surrounds. Above 5 windows with late C20 top hung casements, also with flush ashlar surrounds. South gable wall now rendered with pair of windows with C20 casements and above a Diocletian window all with painted ashlar surrounds. Rear facade has to right a chamfered C17 doorway then a 3-light chamfered mullion window, with similar window above with hood mould. Remaining irregular fenestration includes a 2-light, 3-light and 4-light chamfered mullion windows, various eighteenth century sashes and a round headed staircase window with glazing bars. Central section topped with blank gable. To left a 2 storey canted bay window with lintel and cill bands. Beyond a tall staircase window with margin light glazing and beyond a C20 glazed door in painted surround, above another top hung casement. INTERIOR has many eighteenth century panelled doors, arched staircase archway and eighteenth century staircase with boxed-in balusters and moulded handrail. Late nineteenth century back stair. This house was purchased by Mary Bosanquet in 1770, who set up an orphanage here, and moved on when she married the Rev John W Fletcher in 1782. She accommodated John Wesley here in 1770 and 1775.

Listing NGR: SE2563226931