Ashwood
ASHWOOD, 48, HEADINGLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255984
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Ashwood
- Statutory Address:
- ASHWOOD, 48, HEADINGLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255984
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Ashwood
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHWOOD, 48, 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.
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:
- ASHWOOD, 48, 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 28639 35742
Details
LEEDS
SE2835NE HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley 714-1/65/766 (North East side) 08/05/73 No.48 Ashwood
GV II
House, now flats. c1836, altered early C20. Probably by John Child for Joseph Austin. Ashlar, roof concealed. 2 storeys over basement, E-facing entrance facade of 3 bays. Tudor style with Perpendicular-style tracery and hoodmoulds to windows. Plinth. Central gabled entrance bay projects: 6-panel door with overlight in shallow ogee arch with hoodmould, oriel window above; octagonal buttresses rise as moulded and castellated chimneys. Outer bays: 2 blind windows to ground floor and two 2-light windows to 1st floor left; a projecting 2 light bay window ground floor and two 2-light 1st-floor windows to right. Moulded string at 1st-floor sill and eaves levels; moulded blocking course, tall moulded stacks. Left return: 2 canted bay windows to ground floor, 4 first-floor windows as front. Right return: a projecting 2-window wing and added oriel window. INTERIOR: octagonal entrance hall with two 4-centred arched crocketed niches and archway to octagonal stair hall with rooms off, ?early C20 blue and white mosaic floor, turned balusters to stairs which are top lit, coved ceiling. 6-panel doors, some with arched top panels, Art Nouveau-style stained glass in several windows, shutters; ceiling cornice with vine motif to front right, remains of original plaster ceiling with bands of Tudor roses and cornice in rear right which also has probably early C20 panelled dado, door and fireplace of large green marble slabs. Joseph Austin was a woolstapler and prominent Roman Catholic; John Child was a fellow Catholic who later speculated in house building in the Headingley area. Joseph's son Alfred Austin, poet laureate 1896-1913, lived here as a child 1835-57. (Douglas, J (Victorian Society) pers. comm.).
Listing NGR: SE2863935742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Douglas, J, Hammond, C, Powell, K, Victorian Society Walks in Leeds Three Suburban Walks, (1987)
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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