Fairfax Hall Leeds Metropolitan University
FAIRFAX HALL LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, BECKETT PARK
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256292
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfax Hall Leeds Metropolitan University
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRFAX HALL LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, BECKETT PARK
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/13068/07
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Carr. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256292
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Fairfax Hall Leeds Metropolitan University
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRFAX HALL LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, BECKETT PARK
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:
- FAIRFAX HALL LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, BECKETT PARK
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 26818 36813
Details
LEEDS
SE23NE BECKETT PARK, Beckett Park 714-1/6/514 Fairfax Hall, Leeds Metropolitan University
GV II
Hall of residence. 1911. By GW Atkinson. Red brick, ashlar details, slate hipped roof. 3 storeys, 5 unequal bays of 3,5,1,5,3 windows. In Classical 'Wrennaissance' style, one of 7 halls grouped to the S of the main building, James Graham Hall (qv). The central and outer bays break forward and have brick and ashlar rustication and quoins, the banded brick rustication carried across the ground floor. Central entrance: 3-panel double doors, fanlight above with Art Nouveau-style tracery, in round arch with similar style mask to keystone, console brackets, cornice and balustrade fronting the 1st-floor window above which, with the 2nd-floor window, is within a stone panel with eared architraves. Small-pane windows throughout, set in round-arched recesses. First-floor band, modillion eaves cornice, pedimented end and centre bays, tall decorated brick ridge stacks. INTERIOR: a glazed inner screen with geometric X glazing bars opens into an inner hall with panelled walls, Classical surround to fireplace right, round-arched corridors opening off left and right which have glazed double doors, dado rail, original panelled doors in moulded casings with overlights. At each end of the corridors a cantilevered geometric stone staircase with square-section cast-iron balusters, column newel, ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SE2681836813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465047
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 05-Jun-2026 at 14:31:22.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.