Description

THORNER CARR LANE SE34SE LS14 (north side, off) SE363402 Eltofts

7/177 The Bishop's House

GV II

Former Dower-house of the Earls of Mexborough, now the residence of the Bishop Emeritus of Leeds. c1775,raised refronted and extended c1840. Punch-dressed stone with a herringbone "V"- cut dressing to C18 work, tooled with small squares to 1840 work with ashlar dressings. Welsh blue-slate roof. 2 storeys and 2½ storeys to front of main house. 3-bay wing left of 3-bay house, with 2-bay house to rear linked to main house. 3-gabled frontage. Central doorway has pilastered doorway with frieze and cornice. Above, 12-pane sash in raised stone architrave surround with smaller window above under small shaped gable. Outer bays, set forward, have tripartite sashes in raised architrave surrounds to first 2 floors with square 16-pane sashes above. Coped gables with kneelers. Two lateral octagonal stacks to each side. Wing set back to left: 3 bays of windows with wedge-shaped lintels, those to ground-floor broken through to form long lights to light private chapel, those above with projecting sills and 12-pane sashes. Hipped roof with lateral stack to rear pitch. Rear of house: tall central arched stair-window set between 2 gables, tripartite sashes to left, extension to right linking rear range. Right-hand return (of house) has C18 stonework and original window with architrave and casement-moulded cornice with C19 sash window above. Inserted French window to right up 7 well-dressed steps. Link has doorway with overlight. Rear range has 2 bays of tripartite sash windows with long monolithic lintels cut with false voussoirs. Ashlar ridge stack extended in brick.

Interior: C19 rooms, several cellar steps inscribed with the date 1775. The front of the house, particularly in its stone dressing and treatment of the gables, is very similar to Field Head, Thorner Lane (q.v.) and may be by the same architect or mason.

Listing NGR: SE3633440202

External Links

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