Number 3 Stead House

NUMBER 3 STEAD HOUSE, 3, WILLOW TERRACE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255679
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
Number 3 Stead House
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 3 STEAD HOUSE, 3, WILLOW TERRACE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255679
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Number 3 Stead House
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 3 STEAD HOUSE, 3, WILLOW TERRACE ROAD

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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:
NUMBER 3 STEAD HOUSE, 3, WILLOW TERRACE ROAD

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 29508 34361

Details

LEEDS

SE2934SE WILLOW TERRACE ROAD 714-1/74/1175 (North side) 05/08/76 University Campus No.3 Stead House (Formerly Listed as: FORMER WILLOW TERRACE ROAD (North side) University Of Leeds No.3 Microbiology (Virology) Building)

II

House, now Leeds University premises. 1821, altered late C19 and restored c1992. By JS Morrish. For Julia Lyddon. Rendered brick, slate roof, stone details. 2 storeys, 5 bays, pediment over centre 3 bays. Central restored 6-panel door with semicircular overlight in surround of three-quarter Tuscan columns and open pediment. Plate-glass sashes throughout, round-arched window in tympanum; first-floor sill band, cornice and blocking course. End stacks. Restoration in progress at time of survey. INTERIOR: not inspected. The first building on the land inherited by Julia Silly (later Lyddon) from her uncle, the wealthy Leeds merchant Wade Preston. The house was originally called Preston Lodge. (Beresford M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 30-33).



Listing NGR: SE2950834361

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465761
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Beresford, M, Walks Round Red Brick, (1980), 30-33

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Number 3 Stead House

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