FRANCIS JOHNSON AND PARTNERS

New Country House, West Yorkshire

This substantial new house lies at the edge of a pretty village in the green belt to the north of Leeds. It replaces an undistinguished house built on the edge of an abandoned limestone quarry, now the garden. It is in an early Georgian style and built in Clipsham stone with a roof of Northumbrian sandstone slates. A two storey high swimming pool lies beneath the western elevation.

(Top) The staircase is in English oak with a limed finish and is enriched with carved tread ends.

(Left) The front doors are in English oak left to weather naturally.

(Above) The entrance front faces a forecourt paved with porphyry setts.