Beech Grove House

BEECH GROVE HOUSE, BEECH GROVE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256283
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
Beech Grove House
Statutory Address:
BEECH GROVE HOUSE, BEECH GROVE TERRACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256283
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Beech Grove House
Statutory Address 1:
BEECH GROVE HOUSE, BEECH GROVE TERRACE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BEECH GROVE HOUSE, BEECH GROVE TERRACE

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 29354 34635

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NW BEECH GROVE TERRACE 714-1/71/1134 (West side (off)) 05/08/76 University Campus Beech Grove House (Formerly Listed as: BEECH GROVE TERRACE University Campus Beech Grove House including gates and gate piers to SE of house)

II

House, now Leeds University Dept of Education. 1799, altered 1840 and C20. For Abram Rhodes, with alterations 1840 for John Ogden March. Ashlar, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys and attic (modern attic dormers). 3 x 7 bays. East front: central round-arched porch with attached columns and moulded cornice; flanking and first-floor plate-glass sashes, first-floor sill band, recessed rectangular panels below outer windows, the central window with architrave. Left return: central 3 windows in a wide semicircular bay, sill band and panels as front. Large stone stacks to left and right of ridge. INTERIOR: reputed to retain mid C19 domestic features (Beresford p.46). Abram Rhodes was a leading Leeds cloth merchant and his property originally included workshops, warehouses and a malt kiln; John March was an iron founder and machine maker, working with Matthew Murray. (Beresford M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 46).



Listing NGR: SE2935434635

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
465086
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beresford, M, Walks Round Red Brick, (1980)

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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