| Description | An outbuilding, Listed Grade II*, constructed of coursed rubble and contemporary with Heathcote House (PRN 9765), a 3 storey, Grade II* Listed, Classical villa built in 1906 8 by E. Lutyens for Ernest Hemingway, a Bradford merchant. The outbuilding helps to form part of the almost symmetrical frontage onto the road, and abuts the entrance walling. The outbuilding features a moulded cornice, has no quoins, and is lower than the cottages because of the slope of the ground. It also has 7 symmetrically spaced leaded casement windows (the middle one rising into the frieze).
There are a number of other contemporary buildings and architectural features associated with Heathcote House which are also Listed Grade II*. These include the courtyard and entrance walls to the north of the house, a pair of cottages, terrace (with steps and fountains) and two apses on the boundary walls either side of the main house (see PRNs 9766, 9767, 9769 – 9773 for further details).
(Text edited from English Heritage’s LBO description)
In January 2014 English Heritage visited Heathcote House (PRN 9765) in order to assess whether it should be upgraded to Grade I. At the same time English Heritage also wrote short updated descriptions about a number of the House’s associated outbuildings and garden features (many of which are listed in their own right). See PRNs 9766, 9767, 9769, 9771, 9772, 9773, 13451, 13452 for further details)
This low, single storey, rectangular building stands on the north west side of the main house fronting onto King's Road. It is slightly recessed from the corner of the entrance wall, and is built of narrow, shaped and coursed rubblestone with an ashlar frieze band and a moulded cornice. It has a hipped, pantile roof with a stone ridge stack. A central window rises through the frieze band and is flanked by lower, narrow side lights. On each side are two evenly spaced, square windows, all with leaded casements. The south elevation lies in an inner yard reached through the west gateway in the courtyard wall. At the left hand end is the motor house with a set of three timber and small pane glazed double doors beneath a deep, projecting, glazed canopy with a RSJ frame set into the wall of the adjoining property on the left hand side and supported on a slender, square column on the right hand side. To the right of the motor house are two wide, tall doorways with a domestic doorway at the right hand end.
Interior: the rooms are faced in painted brick. The motor house has a wooden block floor with an inspection pit and decorative iron floor grilles next to the walls. There are two high RSJs running across the motor house, set in brick piers on the north side and supported by slender iron columns on the south side adjacent to the double doors. The ceiling is boarded. The workshops have wooden parquet flooring. The interconnecting doorways have timber board doors.
(Text edited from English Heritage’s 2014 consultation report) |