The Orphanage With Attached Garden Wall And Gatepiers

SE 42 NE 8/21 4th July 1952

LEDSHAM LS25 CLAYPIT LANE (north side) The Orphanage with attached garden wall and gatepiers

GV II

Orphanage, now 3 flats. Founded 1721 by Lady Betty Hastings of Ledston Hall. Slightly altered. Magnesian limestone ashlar, stone slate roof. T-shaped plan: rectangular single-depth range with rear stair turret (and modern addition to rear of right-hand half). Classical style; 3 storeys and 7 bays, symmetrical; central doorway with recessed 6-panel door, broad moulded architrave and cornice; vertical rectangular windows of equal height on all floors, all with cross-window casements (restored). Stone gable copings with moulded kneelers, gable chimneys each bearing 3 octagonal flues. Rear: central gabled stair-turret which has a ground floor doorway with moulded architrave and cornice, and stone gable copings with moulded kneelers. Later addition in angle with this. Left gable has an attic cross-window. Attached to the front corners are high walls enclosing the sides of the front garden, of rubble with pitched copings, at the front a low wall carrying railings with spear-headed bars and, in the centre of this, square gatepiers with moulded caps and ball finials (that on the right missing). Iron gates with spear-headed bars and dog-bars.

Interior: dog-leg staircase with closed string and slim turned balusters (from 1st floor only); very large square beams with small chamfer; principal-rafter roof.

Listing NGR: SE4569429786