WHEATFIELD HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1255681
Date first listed: 05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment: 11-Sep-1996
Statutory Address: WHEATFIELD HOUSE, WOOD LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: WHEATFIELD HOUSE, WOOD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference: SE 28200 36370
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
LEEDS
SE2836SW WOOD LANE, Headingley
714-1/62/829 (North side (off))
05/08/76 Wheatfield House
(Formerly Listed as:
WOOD LANE, Headingley
Wheatfield House (Adult Training
Centre))
GV II
Formerly known as: Wheatfield Lodge Headingley.
House, now hospice. c1855 with c1900 extension to rear by
Thomas Butler Wilson, altered and extended late C20. Coursed
squared gritstone and ashlar, slate roof. 2 and 3 storeys, 4
bays; single-storey hospice range added to E side 1985.
Italianate style.
South front: central porch with Tuscan columns in antis,
entablature and dentilled cornice, square tower above with
architrave and cornice to 1st-floor window and 3 round-arched
lights to 2nd; shallow pyramidal roof. Left bay has canted bay
window to ground floor, paired and single-light windows to 1st
and 2nd floors, shallow gable above; 2 narrow bays to right
set back, with plain windows. Deep boxed and bracketed eaves,
tall corniced stacks centre and left.
Rear: a projecting wing built over the boundary wall has a
central 3-light bowed window and round angle turrets, moulded
string at sill levels and egg-and-dart moulding to line of
former wall top; eaves detailing matches front.
INTERIOR: hall with marble Ionic columns supporting heavy
entablature with decorated frieze, the doorways have
egg-and-dart mouldings to architraves with pulvinated oak-leaf
friezes with cornices. Good marble open-well stairs with
wrought-iron balusters, and arcading to landing supported on
groups of 4 Tuscan columns, stairwell ceiling has entablature
supported on consoles. Series of good principal rooms,
probable dining room right has paired Ionic columns supporting
entablatures along each side of room, niches at end and
plaster ceiling.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-).
Listing NGR: SE2820036370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 465763
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing