Burton House

BURTON HOUSE, BURTON AVENUE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255805
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
Burton House
Statutory Address:
BURTON HOUSE, BURTON AVENUE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255805
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Burton House
Statutory Address 1:
BURTON HOUSE, BURTON AVENUE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
BURTON HOUSE, BURTON AVENUE

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 30241 31445

Details

LEEDS

SE33SW BURTON AVENUE, Hunslet 714-1/11/862 (North East side) 05/08/76 Burton House (Formerly Listed as: BURTON AVENUE, Hunslet Burton House (Annex for Cockburn High School))

II

Large house, now offices. Late C18. Red brick, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, square plan, 1:3:1 windows. Centre 3 in slight projection with wide pediment. Moulded dentilled cornice. Band at floor level. Stone lintels, apron panels, and sill band to 1st-floor centre 3 windows, centre one in moulded architrave with dentilled cornice. Good central doorway with Roman Doric engaged columns, open pediment and good traceried fanlight, fielded-panel door. All sashes with glazing bars. Right-hand return elevation 5 bays, centre 2-storeyed bow of 3 sashes with dentilled eaves cornice continuing around. Low wing at rear 2 storeys, 1 bay, ground-floor Venetian window with cornice and pulvinated frieze over side lights and round-headed central light with keyblock, doorway to side also with moulded round arch with keyblock. Left hand return of main building, 6 bays, 2 blocked, 1st-floor tall round-headed stair sash window with intersecting glazing bars, doorway below in moulded architrave with rectangular traceried fanlight and fluted frieze and cornice, to left good ground-floor semicircular bowed bay window in wood of 3 curved sashes, with fluted frieze and cornice. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SE3024131445

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
465656
Legacy System:
LBS

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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