An 1830 print of the House from "Neale's Views of Seats"
Built / Designed For: Thomas Woolrick
House & Family History: Benjamin Gott was a successful cloth merchant and the owner of the first large-scale woolen factory in Leeds. He purchased the Armley Estate of 200 acres in 1803 and commissioned Smirke to remodel the existing Georgian house of the Woolrick family into a Greek villa, thus creating the first Greek Revival house in West Yorkshire. The Gott family added to the Estate, so that, by the 1860s, it comprised 770 acres. The family decamped in the late 1920s.
Architect: Robert Smirke
Date: Circa 1818John Preston (J.P.) Neale, published under the title of Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, among other titles: Vol. V, 1822.
Title: England's Lost Houses From the Archives of Country Life
Author: Worsley, Giles
Year Published: 2002
Publisher: London: Aurum Press
ISBN: 1854108204
Book Type: Hardback
Title: Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880
Author: Wilson, Richard; Mackley, Alan
Year Published: 2000
Reference: pgs. 7-8
Publisher: London: Hambledon and London
ISBN: 1852852526
Book Type: Hardback
Title: Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, A - SOFTBACK
Author: Colvin, Howard
Year Published: 1995
Reference: pg. 880
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300072074
Book Type: Softback
House Listed: Grade II
Park Listed: Grade II
Past Seat / Home of: Thomas Woolrick, 18th century. Benjamin Gott, 18th-19th centuries; Gott family here from 1803 until the 1920s.
Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust
Primary Current Ownership Use: Club
Ownership Details: Owned by the Gott family and leased to Leeds City Council for 999 years; today Gotts Park Golf Club.
House Open to Public: No
Phone: 07983-008-044
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://gottsparkgolfclub.co.uk
Historic Houses Member: No