SYCAMORE LODGE

SYCAMORE LODGE, 7A, WOODHOUSE CLIFF

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255688
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: SYCAMORE LODGE
Statutory Address:: SYCAMORE LODGE, 7A, WOODHOUSE CLIFF

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255688
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: SYCAMORE LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: SYCAMORE LODGE, 7A, WOODHOUSE CLIFF

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SYCAMORE LODGE, 7A, 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 29145 35597

Details

LEEDS

SE2935 WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse 714-1/24/1264 (North side) No.7A Sycamore Lodge

GV II

House, now offices. c1860, late C20 conversion to offices. Red brick, stretcher bond, ashlar details, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central entrance bay having a 3-storey tower with entrance in right return and the right bay set back. Quoins. Italianate style. Modern double entrance doors in round arch with rusticated voussoirs and female head carved on keystone; tower windows are single and paired round arches, the top storey with stone bracketed balcony and cast-iron rail; bracketed eaves, pyramid roof, ornate cast-iron finial; carved stone plaque above 1st-floor window depicts a sailing ship and the motto, 'TUTUS IN UNDIS' ('safety on the waves') and initials 'EW'. Bays 1 and 3 have a canted bay window with pedimented blocking course to ground floor and a segmental-arched sash in architrave with console brackets and cornice with carved plaque to 1st floor. Left bay gabled; deep bracketed eaves, end stacks. Left return: 3 uneven bays, the centre breaks forward and is rendered; single light to ground floor, the 3 first-floor windows in round-arched architraves. INTERIOR: entrance lobby and stair hall: egg-and-dart mouldings and moulded ceiling cornices, 6-panel doors, oak staircase with carved newel. 'EW' was probably Edward Wood, a manufacturing chemist whose house was at Woodhouse Cliff in 1866 (directory). He was a partner in the firm of Wood and Bedford of No.27 Kirkstall Road (not included), and James Bedford's address was Sycamore Lodge in the 1873 directory. In October 1876 James and his brother Charles made reputedly the first telephone conversation in Britain between the upper floor and the outhouse ('Woodhouse Remembered', p10). James Bedford was still at Sycamore Lodge in 1881, the architect Francis Bedford was a member of this family. (White's Directory of Leeds, Bradford, etc: 1866-; Porter's Directory of Leeds: 1872-1873: 33; Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1881-; Woodhouse Local History Group: Woodhouse Remembered: 1991-: 10).

Listing NGR: SE2914535597

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Legacy System number:: 465770
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
White, W, Directory of Leeds, etc, (1866)
'Woodhouse Local History Group' in Woodhouse Remembered, (1991), 10
'Kellys Directory' in Leeds, (1881)
'Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood' in Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, (1872), 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.