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© Mr David Karran
IoE Number:
464677
Location:
GATEHOUSE AT KIRKSTALL ABBEY (ABBEY HOUSE FOLK MUSEUM), ABBEY ROAD (north off)
LEEDS, LEEDS, WEST YORKSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr David Karran
Date Photographed:
05 September 2001
Date listed:
26 September 1963
Date of last amendment:
11 September 1996
Grade
II*
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LEEDS
SE2536 ABBEY ROAD, Kirkstall
714-1/18/886 (North side (off))
26/09/63 Gatehouse at Kirkstall Abbey (Abbey
House Folk Museum)
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY ROAD, Kirkstall
(North side)
Gatehouse at Kirkstall Abbey (Abbey
Museum))
GV II*
Gatehouse, now museum. C12, with later additions, altered
early C20. Coursed squared gritstone, stone slate roofs. 3
bays deep, wide rib-vaulted passage. Upper rooms reached by a
stone newel staircase on SW corner. Additions made up to the
Dissolution, after which it was converted to a dwelling house.
A C15/16 wing to SW; 2 storeys, 2- and 3-light arched windows
with stone mullions, tracery and cusped heads. Additions of
early C20 to NW in Tudor style with tall corniced chimneys.
INTERIOR: not inspected.