Manor House

AIREBOROUGH TOWN STREET SE 14 SE LS20 (west side) Guiseley) 4/79 No. 55 - (Manor House) GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1681 on lintel; altered. Large dressed sandstone blocks in graduated courses with quoins, stone slate roof. Two-unit central-lobby-entry plan. Two storeys and 2 bays, symmetrical; continuous dripmould over ground-floor openings, stepped over door; on each side a recessed 4-light mullioned window (each lacking the centre mullion), and at left end evidence of a former single-light window; at 1st floor a double-chamfered single-light window above the door, and on each side a 3-light window with plain surround and flat-faced flush mullions; to right of centre window, a square sundial dated 1683 (probably ex situ, because out of orientation); large corniced ridge chimney in line with door, chimney and gable coping with kneelers at right-hand gable; stone slate roof continuous with Nos. 53 and 51 to left (q.v.); but another chimney at junction.

Interior: housebody in left-hand room has large and very fine stone fireplace with corbelled segmental arch, the corbels cut in one piece with the outermost vousoirs, stepped voussoirs and moulded cornice; large longitudinal chamfered beam, and chamfered joists, all with triangular stops. (Longitudinal partition wall inserted towards rear makes rear service rooms).

History: said to have been built as house for schoolmaster of Guiseley.

Listing NGR: SE1944142408