Carr Manor House

LEEDS

SE23NE STONEGATE ROAD, Meanwood 714-1/6/978 (South East side) 26/09/63 Carr Manor House

GV II

Large house. 1881, extended c1904. By ES Prior. For Thomas Clifford Allbutt, MD. Additions c1904 by Francis Bedford for Col Frederick William Tannett-Walker. Snecked walling of dressed millstone grit, slate roofs. In Vernacular Revival style. Asymmetrical. 2 storeys with attics. S front: 5 gables, the 2 right set back and the centre projects; the left 2 gabled bays probably the Bedford additions. Entrance with stepped hoodmould right, mullion and transom windows to ground floor, mullions to upper floors, leaded lights. Sundial above 1st-floor window centre, embattled parapet right, stepped gable ends, stone chimneys with moulded cornices at each end and forward of ridge, centre. North range at rear; connecting elliptical moulded arches form entrance to rear courtyard with mosaic floor to entrance porch. INTERIOR: reputed to contain panelled rooms, fireplaces and plaster ceilings all in Vernacular Revival style. Carr Manor was built on the site of Carr House, home of the Oates family 1765, 1868. In 1914 the estate was sold to the Leeds surgeon Sir Berkeley Moynihan, later Lord Moynihan. Leeds Corporation bought the property in 1938 to be lodgings for High Court Judges when sitting in Leeds. (Hopwood WA & Casperson FP: Meanwood; Village, Valley, Industry and People: 1986-: 60; The Architect: 1890-).

Listing NGR: SE2946037892