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Description: | 2nd November 1950. iew of the rear of Allerton Hall, a substantial brick house and gardens. The original house was built some 600 years ago and was the home of the Kitchingman family for many years. There is no known record of the date of the original building, which was largely demolished in 1703. John Harrison, the noted Leeds benefactor, and a nephew of John Kitchingman, is known to have sought sanctuary from the plague here in 1645.
The present building originates in the 18th century, notably the east wing (seen right), with 19th & 20th century alterations. The house is brick and slate with noticable keystones, sash windows and a projecting wing with a bowed front. For much of the nineteenth century this house was owned by William Williams Brown, banker and then by his daughter Margaret Duncan Dunn. The property was converted into flats later on. The east wing originally had a flat roof with a parapet, as seen in an earlier image on the Leodis website. When the new roof was constructed, part of the window, seen in the right return of the central tower, was lost. Allerton Hall is a Grade II listed building. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Allerton Hall Stainbeck Lane | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=31... | Go to resource |
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