| Description | Coach house and service range (now premises of ACF Yorkshire Seacroft detachment), built c.1837. Constructed of coursed squared gritstone, with a stone slate roof (part missing). Two storey, two bay taller block with projecting wing, and single storey two bay coach house attached on left. Features four centred arches with finely tooled voussoirs, small square chamfered windows. Gable copings, bulbous kneelers, first floor stack slightly projecting on gable. Inserted and blocked openings. Interior not inspected. Included for group value.
(Text edited from English Heritage's National Heritage List of England, 1996)
During 2011 and 2012 a programme of archaeological work was undertaken at Seacroft Grange which including earthwork survey and trial trenching of the grounds, and building recording of the Grange building and adjacent coach house. The coach house is L shaped in plan, and appears to represent three different, albeit probably braodly contemporary, phases of construction. These consist of an east range, aligned north west range to south east, a north range on the building's north western corner, and a south range extending toward sthe south west from the north range. It is thought that the north range was constructed first, with the east and south ranges added soon after. The position of a window in the east wall of the north range shows that this was formerly an exterior wall. This range may have acted as stabling, the east range partly as accommodation, and teh south range as a two bay coach house. A further coach bay was inserted in the east bay, but this was later blocked and a door and stairs inserted during the 20th century. A detailed description of the exterior and interior of the coach house (as well as photographs) can be found in the final report by ASWYAS which is on file under PRN 12469.
It is thought that the existing coach house dates from the late 19th century and was built to accompany the 19th century Seacroft Grange. Both buildings were, however, built on the site of an earlier 17th century house and assocaited coach house known as Tottie Hall (see PRN 12469). A late 18th century plan of the township of Seacroft (Leeds Archives ref. WYL115/MA33) shows a T shaped building to the west of Tottie Hall and this is thought to be the location of the now demolished original coach house. This T shaped building is shown as still occupying the site by the time of the First Edition OS map surveyed in 1851, suggesting that the extant coach house was built sometime between the 1850s and the publication of the second edition OS map in the 1890s (where it is shown).
(Text edited from ASWYAS, 2012: 9 11) |