School of Education

22, LODGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255932
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
School of Education
Statutory Address:
22, LODGE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255932
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
School of Education
Statutory Address 1:
22, LODGE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, 5, HILLARY PLACE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
22, LODGE STREET
Statutory Address:
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, 5, HILLARY PLACE

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 29591 34531

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NE HILLARY PLACE, University Campus
714-1/72/1153 (South side)
No.5
School of Education

GV II

Includes: No.22 LODGE STREET University Campus.
House, now part of Leeds University School of Education. 1852,
altered later C19. For John Crofts, mill owner. Red brick,
stone details, slate roof, reduced stacks forward of ridge to
left and right of centre.
3 storeys, a plain rectangular building of 7 x 3 bays. A wide
central entrance with paired 4-panel double doors, plain
fanlight, ashlar rusticated pilasters, moulded imposts and
architrave, keystone and cornice. Plate-glass sash windows,
stone sill bands, bracketed sills to 1st and 2nd floors.
Wooden gutter brackets; closely-set purlin ends on gabled left
return.
INTERIOR: a wide entrance lobby with moulded plaster ceiling,
screen with etched glazing to door, paired Corinthian columns
in antis support round archways left and right leading to
corridors, archway in front to large staircase hall with
panelled surround to fireplace. 6-panel doors, moulded ceiling
cornices. The main staircase rising to the 1st floor has
turned balusters and a gallery with scrolled wrought-iron
balustrade, top lit and having a moulded coved plaster
ceiling. A 2nd service staircase has turned column-on-vase
balusters and rises to the top of the house. Several rooms
reputed to retain original fireplaces, plaster detailing. John
Crofts was one of the partners in Crofts, Donisthorpe and Co.,
of Larchfield Mills, Hunslet. In 1917 the house was the home
of the Vicar of Leeds; in 1926 it was purchased by the
University.
(Gosden, PHJH & Taylor AJ: Studies in the History of a
University: Leeds: 1974-).



Listing NGR: SE2959134531

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465461
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Gosden, P H, Taylor, A J, Studies in the History of a University 1874-1974, (1974)

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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