| Description | Stables, coach house and probably gardeners' bothey, with walls and gate piers to yard. Built in 1835 40 by John Clark for John Hives. Constructed of ashlar, red brick, slate roofs. There is a central flat archway with squat tower over in Egyptian style with battered walls, roll moulded angles, round arched recess with blank shield and clock, roll moulding, deep coved cornice, flat roof. To each side 2 bay single storey former 2 storey, 3 bay gabled end wings: the fronts have a round arched window in a recess to ground floor, similar window (altered on right) to 1st floor, with a continuous string over; facing the yard the left wing has 2 round arched doorways with fanlights, 3 round arched windows in pedimented dormers, 5 flue stack in the form of squat Ionic columns; the right wing has 1 doorway and 3 windows, 1 blind, 3 flat arched windows to 1st floor. The left return of the left wing has pedimented dormer, the right return of the right wing is of red brick in English bond, stone surrounds to windows, and faces into the former enclosed garden. INTERIOR: not inspected. The wall enclosing the stable yard has a flat coping and wide monolithic pedestrian gateways to left and right of the central entrance which has battered monolithic piers with flat segmental faced capstones. Built as stables and coach house to Gledhow Grove, now Weetwood Grove and Weetwood Grange. Text edited from English Heritage's National Heritage List.
Peter Thornborrow visited the stables on behalf of West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service (WYAAS), in 2003 to prepare a Building Recording Specification. The following was noted during the visit:
This building comprises stables, coach house and probably a gardeners’ bothy, with walls and gate piers to the yard. It was built in 1835 40 by John Clark for John Hives, and it is built of ashlar, red brick and has slate roofs. There is a central flat archway with a squat tower over in Egyptian style, with battered walls, roll moulded angles, a round arched recess with a blank shield and clock, roll moulding, a deep coved cornice, and a flat roof.
The wall enclosing the stable yard has flat coping, and wide monolithic pedestrian gateways to the left and right of the central entrance, which has battered monolithic piers with flat segmental faced capstones.
This building was built as stables and coach house to Gledhow Grove, which was later converted to a hospital (PRN 8741). A planning application to carry out alterations to the building and three two storey extensions to form offices, gained approval in 2003.
A copy of the above information including photographs and drawn floorplans are held at the offices of West Yorkshire HER. |