Aberford House Including Front Garden Wall With Gatepiers And Inner Paved Parterre With Steps

LOTHERTON CUM ABERFORD MAIN STREET SE43NW LS25 (east side)Aberford Aberford House, including 2/61 front garden wall with 3.2.67 gatepiers and inner paved parterre with steps (Formerly listed as Aberford House including gatepiers)

GV II

House and front garden wall with gatepiers and paved parterre. C18, altered internally. Magnesian limestone ashlar, roof of graduated stone slates. L- shaped plan: 3 structural bays with short rear wing to 1st bay, plus service extension at left end. Classical style; 2 storeys, five lst-floor windows, symmetrical, with rusticated quoins, ground-floor sillband, modillioned cornice, partly-balustraded parapet; 2 doorways flanking the middle bay, each with panelled door, rectangular 3-pane fanlight, pedimented architrave with consoles; at ground floor 2 windows to each bay, at 1st floor 5 windows symmetrically disposed, all these with plain architraves, and mostly 12-pane sashes, except those at ground floor of 1st bay which are inverted sashes with 6 panes in the lower leaf and 9 in the upper, and that over the left-hand door, which is blind. Parapet balustrades align with lst-floor windows. Hipped roof with ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, and end-wall chimneys. Lower 2-storey service extension slightly set back at left end has small windows; single-storey wing at right-hand end, with small square window. Rear: wing to 1st bay in form of 2-storey canted bay, with sashed windows; doorway and stairlight at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, otherwise two 12-pane sashes on each floor; service extension has Venetian window to former kitchen. Interior of less interest. Included in the item is the front garden wall to full width of house, of dressed stone with banded gatepiers and inner paved parterre with 8 broad steps leading up to the house.

Listing NGR: SE4336137166