Lower Mickletown, Willow Grove Farm
Lower Mickletown from Green Lane, 1993
This photo taken from Green Lane, looking across
the fields shows a mixture of old and new properties. On the near right are
two new bungalows, now the last properties in Lower Mickletown and built approximately
on the site of the original houses which were the last in Lower Mickletown
before. There is a pair of semi-detached houses built in the 1930s; four houses
of Moor Side View (older houses); a bungalow on the site of an older house;
two detached houses built on the site of Moor Side Farm. All these on the
north side of the road.
On the south side of the road are two old cottages - first one was Wilson's
shop; gable of new houses of Coney Moor Grove. More properties are being built
in this area, which is fast becoming re-developed.
Willow Grove Farm, rear view, 1983
Stands in the fields to the east of Green Lane,
at the first corner of the road going from Lower Mickletown. A farm was recorded
here in 1786. This rear view seen as farm is approached on track from Green
Lane. Has a quaint, old-world character, a long sloping roof to single storey
rear block from a two storey frontage. The rear retains the old character.
Faces north.
Willow Grove Farm, front view, 1983
Faces south over Methley Mires and onto Leeds
- Pontefract Road the A639. The front of the house was altered, probably in
the 19th century, and again in the 1950s - 1960s. New windows and door were
fitted.
