5 AND 6, ALMA COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256560
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 6, ALMA COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 5 AND 6, ALMA COTTAGES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256560
Date first listed:: 22-Sep-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 5 AND 6, ALMA COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 5 AND 6, ALMA COTTAGES

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 5 AND 6, ALMA COTTAGES

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 27770 36276

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LEEDS

SE2736SE ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley 714-1/61/714 (North side) 22/09/75 Nos.5 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (North side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))

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Pair of cottages. c1860. Coursed squared gritstone, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. One and a half storeys, 3 bays, the central bay gabled. Long and short ashlar quoins. Facade to roadway has cross-frame windows in rusticated surrounds, 1 altered. Arched entrances in left and right returns, door to No.6 probably original with 4 panels; a small stone-roofed bay window, and 2-light window in gable above. Elaborate eaves and roof detailing includes deep carved wooden eaves brackets, fish-scale slates, crested ridge tiles and 2 large 4-flue corniced eaves stacks, some with tall crenellated chimney pots. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a group of 4 pairs of cottages built on a narrow strip field shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map; the 1872 Directory shows that William Brown, warehouseman, lived at No.5 and Thomas Cartwright, gardener, in No.6. (Porter's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood: 1872-).

Listing NGR: SE2777036276

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Legacy System number:: 464773
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood' in Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, (1872)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.