Gledhow Hall

After the outbreak of the First World War, Lord Airedale offered the hall for use as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) hospital.

[11] The scrapbook, filled with "photographs, newscuttings, letters and ephemera" is held by Leeds Libraries as one of its most important treasures.

Community groups from local libraries, guided by an artist, worked to "find the voice" of the scrapbook and explore themes around it, visited and photographed Gledhow Hall including its faience bathroom.

[12] The two-storey house is built in stone ashlar, with chamfered quoins, cornices, a balustraded parapet, and a hipped roof in slate and lead with a tall chimney stack.

[1] The main entrance through the rear loggia has paired panelled doors glazed in stained glass with fruit and butterfly motifs.

The top-lit stair well retains eight lunette windows, each with stained glass representing foliage, flowers and fruit.

[1] The elaborate faience (glazed architectural terra-cotta) bathroom in Burmantofts Pottery was created for a visit from the Prince of Wales.

Gledhow Hall, 2007
Civic Trust plaque
Gledhow Hall in 1915, Olive Middleton , far right next to Edith Cliff , Doris Kitson is centre row third left.
Gledhow Hall c. 1890