5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255687
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
- Statutory Address:
- 5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255687
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 5, WOODHOUSE CLIFF
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 29094 35609
Details
LEEDS
SE2935 WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse 714-1/24/1263 (North side) 05/08/76 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse Nos.5 AND 5A)
GV II
Formerly known as: Cliff House WOODHOUSE CLIFF Woodhouse. House. Late C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Plinth and quoins. Half-glazed door bay 3 with overlight in plain stone surround. Windows, ground floor: paired plate-glass sashes in plain stone surrounds with slender mullions, the sills lowered; first floor, bays 1, 2 and 4: paired C20 casements in plain surrounds with flat-faced mullions and continuous sill band; above entrance: plate-glass sash in Gibbs surround with keyblock. Eaves band and blocking course, gable copings and banded ridge stacks at each end and between bays 1 and 2. INTERIOR: hall entrance passage and landing with elliptical arch, staircase with turned balusters; roof structure comprises king post trusses with longitudinal braces, trenched purlins, the rear roof pitch raised to create an outshut; elsewhere ceiling beams are encased in plaster. An important survival of a farmhouse of C17 origin which stood on the edge of the settlement of Wrangthorn, the land to the E developed as quarries by the mid C19 (OS map). Previously known as Cliff House, in 1872 it was the home of Thomas S Hudson, a woollen merchant of the firm of Hudson, Sykes and Bousfield of No.19 Wellington Street. (qv). (Porter's Directory of Leeds: 1872-1873).
Listing NGR: SE2909435609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood in Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, (1872)
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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