Belle Vue House
BELLE VUE HOUSE, 3, BELLE VUE LAWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255908
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Belle Vue House
- Statutory Address:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE, 3, BELLE VUE LAWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255908
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Belle Vue House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE, 3, BELLE VUE LAWN
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:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE, 3, BELLE VUE LAWN
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 28920 34028
Details
LEEDS
SE23SE BELLE VIEW LAWN 714-1/10/23 (North West side) 21/08/75 No.3 Belle Vue House
II
Large house, now flats. 1793, converted c1974. For Michael Wainhouse. Red brick, ashlar plinth, slate hipped roof, end stacks. Parapet, rebuilt modillion cornice and band at 1st-floor level. 2 storeys and cellar. 1:3:1 windows, centre 3 in projection with pediment over with elliptical window in tympanum, now blocked. 4-pane sashes, flat brick arches, sills, continuous sill bands to 1st floor centre and ground floor. Central doorway with moulded architrave, fluted frieze and pediment on console brackets. Palladian stair window at rear. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Belle Vue was built on 3 and a half acres of land bought by Michael Wainhouse in February 1792 at »390 per acre. It was one of the plain brick villas built late C18 by cloth merchants wishing to escape from the polluted atmosphere of Park Square and other central areas. Wainhouse's workshops and warehouse were at the Park Lane entrance to the long drive which had to curve up the steep slope to the house. (Thoresby Society Publication Vols LX & LXI, Nos 131 & 132: Beresford MW: East End, West End. The Face of Leeds 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 309, 323, 325).
Listing NGR: SE2892034028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465483
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 309, 323
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 325
Thoresby Society Publication in Thoresby Society Publication, (), 131
Thoresby Society Publication in Thoresby Society Publication, (), 132
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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