New Hall

LEEDS

SE22NE DEWSBURY ROAD, Beeston 714-1/13/525 (East side (off)) 19/10/51 New Hall, Nos.1, 2 and 3 (Formerly Listed as: DEWSBURY ROAD, Beeston Stank Hall Farmhouse)

GV II

House, now 3 houses. C17, for the Hodgson family. C19 alterations and refenestration. Coursed gritstone, stone slate roof, quoins. 3 storeys, 2-window gable entrance facade facing west with central C19 doorway, continuous dripmould over 1st-floor windows, 1st, and ground-floor windows replaced with C19 sashes. On upper floor are 2 good 3-light stone mullion windows with dripmoulds. East side reputed to have original doorway with chamfered jambs and 4-centred arched lintel. S side has C19 doorway left of centre, blocked loading door to left of centre on 1st floor, other blocked openings, probably former mullioned windows, 4-pane and plate-glass sashes. N front also has blocked windows and possibly loading doors right of centre, mullioned window survives 1st floor left. Central ridge stack. INTERIOR: ground floor, west end has a very fine C17 re-set carved wood fire surround with fluted pilasters, cornice, central pilaster cut to fit present position; the ceiling cross beams have deep chamfers. Also reputed to contain timber-framed partitions with original door lintels; the roof structure is C19, double queen-post trusses. HISTORICAL NOTE: this building added to the medieval timber-framed house, now Stank Hall (qv), following the purchase of the Beeston estate by Christopher Hodgson of York, attorney to the Council of the North. John Hodgson of New Hall was named in Charles I's charter for the Borough of Leeds. In the C18 the property was probably tenanted and divided; the Denison family were owners by the middle of the century and by the early C19 it was the property of the Beckett family.

Listing NGR: SE2852829083