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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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