Springfield House
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE, HYDE TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375022
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Springfield House
- Statutory Address:
- SPRINGFIELD HOUSE, HYDE TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375022
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Springfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRINGFIELD HOUSE, HYDE 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.
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:
- SPRINGFIELD HOUSE, HYDE 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 29287 34282
Details
LEEDS
SE2934SW HYDE TERRACE, University Campus 714-1/73/1159 (North side (off)) 26/09/63 Springfield House (Formerly Listed as: HYDE TERRACE Springfield House (Diocese of Leeds Curial Offices))
II
Formerly known as: Diocese of Leeds Curial Offices HYDE TERRACE University Campus. House, now University of Leeds premises. 1792, restored C20. For Thomas Livesey. Red brick, stone details, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, 1:3:1 windows, the centre 3 windows break forward with crowning pediment. Stone plinth. Central 6-panel door with fanlight in surround with three-quarter Tuscan columns, entablature, dentilled pediment. Sashes, restored frames, flat brick arches, stone sills, 1st-floor sill band centre, rectangular recessed panels between floors. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Livesey was a cloth dresser; his house is in the same style as Claremont, No.23 Clarendon Road (qv). It was sold 1836 after bankruptcy proceedings, to Samuel Birchall, a Quaker woolstapler who died there 1854; his (?)son Edward, the Leeds architect, b.1838, lived here. The estate was sold in 1865 to the Roman Catholic Diocese and the house became their office, continuing as such until after 1963. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 78-80).
Listing NGR: SE2928734282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465902
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, M, Walks Round Red Brick, (1980), 78-80
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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