Aberford House Including Front Garden Wall with Gatepiers and Inner Paved Parterre with Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1967. House.
Aberford House Including Front Garden Wall with Gatepiers and Inner Paved Parterre with Steps
- WRENN ID
- muted-gateway-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Aberford House Including Front Garden Wall with Gatepiers and Inner Paved Parterre with Steps, Main Street, Lotherton Cum Aberford
- OS grid reference
- SE 433 371
- Coordinates
- 53.82898, -1.3427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aberford House, dating from the 18th century, features a front garden wall with gatepiers and a paved parterre. The house is constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar and has a roof made of graduated stone slates. It has an L-shaped plan with three structural bays and a short rear wing attached to the first bay, along with a service extension at the left end.
In a classical style, the building stands two storeys tall and has five first-floor windows arranged symmetrically. It showcases rusticated quoins, a ground-floor sill band, a modillioned cornice, and a partly balustraded parapet. There are two doorways flanking the middle bay, each featuring a panelled door, a rectangular three-pane fanlight, and a pedimented architrave with consoles. The ground floor has two windows in each bay, while the first floor has five windows, all with plain architraves. Most windows are 12-pane sashes, except for the ground floor windows of the first bay, which are inverted sashes with six panes in the lower leaf and nine in the upper, and the window above the left-hand door, which is blind. The parapet balustrades align with the first-floor windows.
The hipped roof has a ridge chimney at the junction of the first and second bays, along with end-wall chimneys. The lower two-storey service extension, slightly set back at the left end, has small windows, while a single-storey wing at the right-hand end features a small square window. At the rear, the wing to the first bay forms a two-storey canted bay with sashed windows. There is a doorway and stairlight at the junction of the second and third bays, with two 12-pane sashes on each floor. The service extension includes a Venetian window that once served the kitchen.
The front garden wall, made of dressed stone, runs the full width of the house and features banded gatepiers. The inner paved parterre includes eight broad steps leading up to the house.
Local climate
Aberford House Including Front Garden Wall with Gatepiers and Inner Paved Parterre with Steps receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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