Carr Manor

Carr Manor is a Victorian grade II listed house in Meanwood, Leeds, England, designed by Edward Schroeder Prior and built for Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925).

Prior adopted Shaw's entrance hall scheme, rather than the vernacular screens passage that is characteristic of Yorkshire manor houses.

Despite the restrictions on planning imposed by the existing layout, Carr Manor demonstrates Prior's concern to link the building to its garden.

The interior was decorated in a neo-Jacobean scheme with an oak gallery with wooden segmental arches with turned balusters.

Allbutt, a vicar's son from Yorkshire, invented the short clinical thermometer and ophthalmoscope and published his influential eight-volume System of Medicine between 1896 and 1899.

Allbutt was typical of Prior's future clients: successful professional middle-class men, solicitors, barristers, doctors etc.

In 1903 the Leeds firm of Bedford and Kiston were engaged to make major alterations to the house, doubling its size through the addition of a northern range and adding two stories to Prior's service wing, creating an E-shaped plan.

Their work carefully imitated that of Prior externally, but the interiors have been extensively altered with the repositioning of the entrance, hall and main staircase and the classification of the dining room.