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Description: | 31st January 1963.
This was initially a plain 3 storey manor house for Little Woodhouse. Christopher Thompson described as a gentleman rebuilt the property in 1740. It was let with land in 1741. It was purchased by Thomas Coupland, a distiller in 1793. He was bankrupt in 1822 and the property was then bought by John Atkinson, he was a Leeds solicitor, when he died in 1833, his two sons inherited the Hall. Alterations of this period are attributed to John Clarke with interior improvements and designs by William Reid Corson and Edward La Trobe Bateman. John Everett Millais, aged 18, gained his first major commission, painting a set of 6 lunettes (oil on canvas) to decorate the hall. The works depict Infancy, Youth, Manhood, Old Age, Music and Poetry. All half-moon shaped, to position over doorways, done in 1847. They are now housed in Leeds City Art Gallery. William Hey surgeon (descendant of the William Hey who was instrumental in founding Leeds Infirmary) sold the house to Leeds Council in 1855 to be used as the Judges Lodging, along with the gardens of Woodhouse square. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Hyde Terrace Little Woodhouse Hall | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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