7 AND 8, ALMA COTTAGES
7 AND 8, ALMA COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256563
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, ALMA COTTAGES
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, ALMA COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256563
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, ALMA COTTAGES
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, ALMA COTTAGES
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:
- 7 AND 8, 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 27812 36276
Details
LEEDS
SE2736SE ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley 714-1/61/715 (North side) 22/09/75 Nos.7 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))
GV II
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 to ground floor, paired single lights in gable. Arched entrances in left and right returns have probably original 4-panel doors, a small stone-roofed bay window, and 2-light window above. Elaborate eaves and roof details include deep carved wooden eaves brackets, fish-scale slates, crested ridge tiles and 2 large 4-flue corniced ridge stacks, some with tall crenellated chimney pots. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a group of 4 semi-detached cottages built on a narrow strip field shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map; the 1872 Directory shows that they were occupied by Mrs Harriet Darfield, laundress, and Henry Gough, gardener; they were possibly built for servants working at the houses in Alma Road. (Porter's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood: 1872-).
Listing NGR: SE2781236276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464776
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood in Porters Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, (1872)
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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