Balmoral Terrace

BALMORAL TERRACE, 1, 2, 3, SHAW LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1031876
Date first listed:
09-Sept-2002
List Entry Name:
Balmoral Terrace
Statutory Address:
BALMORAL TERRACE, 1, 2, 3, SHAW LANE
Balmoral Terrace from Claremont Drive, Headingley, Leeds May 2023
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1031876
Date first listed:
09-Sept-2002
List Entry Name:
Balmoral Terrace
Statutory Address 1:
BALMORAL TERRACE, 1, 2, 3, SHAW LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BALMORAL TERRACE, 1, 2, 3, SHAW LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 28055 36675

Details

714-1/0/10013 SHAW LANE
09-SEP-02 Headingley
1, 2, 3
Balmoral Terrace

GV II

A terrace of three double fronted houses. c. 1857. Built for George Vevers. Gritstone with gritstone dressings and shallow hipped slate roofs with stone chimney stacks. 2 storey.
Garden facades are double fronted. Each house has a central doorway with pilastered ashlar doorcase and bracketed hood. Either side are single plain sashes in moulded ashlar surrounds with linking cill band. Above 3 plain sashes also in moulded ashlar surrounds with linking ashlar cill band and brackets under the side window cills. Bracketed eaves.
Rear facades are also double fronted. Each with a central doorway with bracketed hood and a 6-panel door. Either side are single plain sashes. Above a large central staircase sash window to each house, with single sashes to either side, to right a small window. These windows have continuous cill bands.
No. 1 has a canted bay window at the side, and No. 3 has a square bay window.
INTERIOR all three houses retain many original features. All three houses retain their original staircases with two turned balusters per tread under a shallow segmental archway. All three houses retain their panelled doors and door surrounds, their windows with shutters on the ground floor, and coving and skirting boards to most other rooms. Most retain original fireplaces on the first floor, though No. 3 retains an original white marble fireplace on the ground floor.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
489770
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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