4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD

4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256084
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD
Statutory Address:
4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256084
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD

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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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:
4 AND 6, SHIRE OAK ROAD

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 28150 36051

Details

LEEDS

SE2836SW SHIRE OAK ROAD, Headingley 714-1/62/816 (South side) Nos.4 AND 6

II

Pair of semi-detached houses. 1893. By Francis Bedford. For James Bedford. Red brick, grey slate steeply pitched roof with attics, wide 5-window central bay and outer bays with full-height canted windows. Queen Anne Revival style. Central 2-panel door (No.4) with overlight in the form of a 3-light oriel with leaded panes, under a deep flat hood on scrolled iron brackets. Small-pane sash windows throughout, tall with segmental-arched head, 5 x 2 panes to ground floor and 4 x 2 panes above, all with moulded brick sills and brick apron panels. Brick dentilled eaves carried around outer bays as deep cornices with wooden balustrade, missing on left. Segmental pediments to 2 front dormers, tall square stacks to left and right, forward of ridge. Entrance to No.6 on left return, centre: 2-panel door, deep flat hood suspended on iron scrolled brackets, windows as front. Right return: a large bow window with wooden casements ground floor centre. INTERIOR: not inspected in detail; No.4 retains original panelled walls and moulded fire surround, panelled doors with ornate fittings in front room. One of the first buildings by Francis Bedford, the most important Leeds architect of this period (d.1904).



Listing NGR: SE2815036051

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465297
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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