Highfield House
HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 54, HEADINGLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255995
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 54, HEADINGLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255995
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 54, 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:
- HIGHFIELD HOUSE, 54, 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:
- SE2853435755
Details
SE2835NE
714-1/65/784
05/08/76
LEEDS
HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley
(North East side)
No.54
Highfield House
GV
II
House, in use as a hall of residence at the time of listing.
c1830. For George Bischoff. Ashlar, hipped slate roof.
2 storeys, 5 bays with recessed outer bays.
Central porch with Tuscan columns supporting entablature
cornice and blocking piece. Segmental bowed stone bay windows
with large 3-light windows, Tuscan pilasters to mullions,
cornice and blocking course over. First floor: 3 windows with
plain lintels and continuous sill band, similar window bay 5.
Eaves cornice, shallow blocking course, end stacks.
INTERIOR: staircase hall has an oval lantern and
Jacobean-style ornate carved balusters of late C19 type.
George Bischoff purchased 122,000 square yards of the estate
of Mrs Barbara Bainbrigge in 1827 and built this house,
probably as a speculation. Samuel Glover, druggist, bought the
house soon after. Later used as a hall of residence for Leeds Polytechnic.
(Douglas, J (Victorian Society), pers. comm.).
Listing NGR: SE2853435755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465392
- 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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