Gatehouses????

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sun 02 Oct, 2011 10:25 pm

Interesting Phil about Woodbourne lodge. Any traces of it that you can see? Seems it was large enough to have more than one gatehouse so must have been significant. On a similar vein any ideas about the attached? It seems perhaps not to have been original to the Nicholson estate but also seems to be where the barracks used to be.I dont think it was there all that long but there is no trace of it now whatsover. Any ideas welcomed!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 02 Oct, 2011 10:41 pm

LS1 wrote: Interesting Phil about Woodbourne lodge. Any traces of it that you can see? Seems it was large enough to have more than one gatehouse so must have been significant. Hi Lee.Apparently Woodbourne had three lodges or carriage houses.You can still see this one on Wetherby Road near the park gates.The next visible one is on Park Avenue, It's the last building on that road before the parkIt's built in the same style, and it's an interesting building in that it appears to be a single story lodge, but if viewed from the other side you can see it's actually a 2 story dwellingThe old maps show stables, and I think the third carriage house can still be found at the back of the White house pub at the side of what was the carriage drive. No trace of the old mansion can be seen though sadly.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 02 Oct, 2011 10:56 pm

This is the 'possible' third lodge, it certainly corresponds with the old map of a building standing next to the carriage drive in that area. Map and aerial image are different angles here!

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Mon 03 Oct, 2011 9:22 am

vbporscha wrote: Hiya, this is my first post, I've been lurking here for a while as I am fairly new to the Leeds area and interested to find out about the history around me!Anyway, would this be classed as a gate house? It is on the junction of Back Lane and Tong Road between New Farnley and...I guess Old Farnley - I wondered if this would be for Farnley Hall?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=LS12+5H ... 2,135,,0,0 When I worked on the buses,this was the terminus for the 22 service Temple Newsam - Old Farnley. The terminus was called The Bar House.I never knew it as Toll House?

vbporscha · Post by **vbporscha** » Mon 03 Oct, 2011 10:49 am

Thanks for the welcomes, probably for another thread (if there is one that anyone knows of can someone point me to it?) but I'm a bit fascinated with that bit of road, like why that row of houses was built there....with not much more around it.Are toll houses and bar houses the same thing? Because you get toll bars don't you?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 03 Oct, 2011 12:54 pm

I occasionally go along Wetherby Road in the area covered by the thread and always find the old buildings there very interesting. I particularly like that many of those on the right as you come from Oakwood have old looking stone pillars at their entrances that have their house name carved on them.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Mon 03 Oct, 2011 9:42 pm

stutterdog wrote: vbporscha wrote: Hiya, this is my first post, I've been lurking here for a while as I am fairly new to the Leeds area and interested to find out about the history around me!Anyway, would this be classed as a gate house? It is on the junction of Back Lane and Tong Road between New Farnley and...I guess Old Farnley - I wondered if this would be for Farnley Hall?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=LS12+5H ... 2,135,,0,0 When I worked on the buses,this was the terminus for the 22 service Temple newsham - Old Farnley. The terminus was called The Bar House.I never knew it as Toll House? The Bar House comes from toll bar.I know for a fact it is an old toll house.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 03 Oct, 2011 9:59 pm

These are the toll houses on Redcote Lane, I only found out about them the other day, fine buildings they were too, shame they've been demolished.Benjamin Gott built Gott's Bridge for his work people to use coming down Redcote Lane from Armley to Kirkstall Road. These lodges were at the northern end and have now been demolished.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sun 09 Oct, 2011 10:27 pm

Don't think this pair have been mentioned yet:And from the other side:On the entrance to Temple Newsam from Colton Road.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 16 Oct, 2011 10:24 pm

I spotted this one on Kirkstall Hill at the top of Burley Hill Drive yesterdayhttp://tinyurl.com/3cjj8qoI need to get a photo of it myself yet, It looks one of the nicest, and most ornate lodges in Leeds. Thankfully those massive conifer trees that are hiding it on street view have been cut down, I'll have to look on the old map to see which house it belonged to.