Austhorpe Hall
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Austhorpe Hall is a house built in 1694 at Austhorpe
, Leeds
, West Yorkshire
, England
. It is a grade II* listed building. The house is of red brick with stone quoins, seven bays and three storeys, with a triangular pediment over the door. Pevsner
describes it as "A remarkably early case of acceptance of the classical idiom".
In 2004 local archaeologists excavated in its grounds and found apparent remains of a prehistoric round barrow
and indications of Roman
defences on the site.
Austhorpe
Austhorpe is a civil parish in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England that is situated between Pendas Fields to the north, Whitkirk to the west, Cross Gates to the north-west and Colton to the south-west....
, Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is a grade II* listed building. The house is of red brick with stone quoins, seven bays and three storeys, with a triangular pediment over the door. Pevsner
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...
describes it as "A remarkably early case of acceptance of the classical idiom".
In 2004 local archaeologists excavated in its grounds and found apparent remains of a prehistoric round barrow
Round barrow
Round barrows are one of the most common types of archaeological monuments. Although concentrated in Europe they are found in many parts of the world because of their simple construction and universal purpose....
and indications of Roman
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire from AD 43 until ca. AD 410.The Romans referred to the imperial province as Britannia, which eventually comprised all of the island of Great Britain south of the fluid frontier with Caledonia...
defences on the site.