Springbank Cottage

SPRINGBANK COTTAGE, HEADINGLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255914
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Springbank Cottage
Statutory Address:
SPRINGBANK COTTAGE, HEADINGLEY LANE
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Date:
2005-09-28
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255914
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Springbank Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
SPRINGBANK COTTAGE, HEADINGLEY LANE

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SPRINGBANK COTTAGE, HEADINGLEY LANE

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 28135 35835

Details

LEEDS

SE2835NW HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley 714-1/64/770 (South West side) 05/02/87 Springbank Cottage (Formerly Listed as: HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (South West side) Entrance Lodge to No.53 (John Taylor Teachers' Centre) and attached gateway)

GV II

Entrance lodge with attached gatepiers and gates. Probably c1857 by John Fox for Robert Ellershaw or 1885-6 by William Thorp for William Harvey, as main house, No.53 (qv). Coursed rock-faced sandstone with gritstone dressings; graduated Welsh slate roof; cast-iron gates. Lodge: Jacobethan style, 1 and a half storeys, 2 bays, gable end to road with gateway projecting from porch. Chamfered plinth; chamfered mullion windows; stopped hoodmoulds; curvilinear gables with ashlar kneelers, coping and finials. Entrance front: central porch with pointed-arch entrance, tall gable with raised shield and inner Tudor-arched board door in chamfered surround flanked by 2-light windows with 2 single-light through eaves dormers above; offset cross-ridge stack with triple diagonal-set flues. Right gable: 3-light under 2-light window; gable motif with hoodmould. INTERIOR: not inspected. Gateway: short section of wall links porch to N gate pier; another section runs from S gate pier and turns at right angles to terminate at roadside pier. Wall approx 1.5m high with chamfered coping. Piers: square on plan with plinths, 2-piece pyramidal capstones, and lucarnes to gate piers. Double gates have 2 horizontal sections, bars and rails forming cusped panels; scalloped top with fleur-de-lis finials.



Listing NGR: SE2813535835

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465443
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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