1A, CAVENDISH ROAD

1A, CAVENDISH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255689
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
1A, CAVENDISH ROAD
Statutory Address:
1A, CAVENDISH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255689
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
1A, CAVENDISH ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
1A, CAVENDISH ROAD

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:
1A, CAVENDISH 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 29573 34587

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NE CAVENDISH ROAD, University Campus 714-1/72/1137 (East side) No.1A

GV II

Church institute, now university premises. Late C19. Coursed squared gritstone, ashlar details, slate roof. Possibly by Richard Adams and John Kelly. A rectangular block with 2-storey, 3-bay gable front to Cavendish Road, extending 10 bays eastwards on a sloping site: 4 storeys at E end. Gothic Revival style. Board doors with cast-iron scrolled hinges in ashlar porch with chamfered arch, attached columns. 3-light window and niches above, rose window in gable. Right return: shouldered arch to entrance porch right, projecting gabled wings centre and left, 2- and 3-light windows, some with transoms, plate tracery to upper floor of centre wing. Chimneys reduced in height. INTERIOR: not inspected. Built as Emanuel Church Institute, possibly by Richard Adams and John Kelly who designed the Emmanuel Church to north.



Listing NGR: SE2957334587

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465771
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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