Burley House
BURLEY HOUSE, 12, CLARENDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375067
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Burley House
- Statutory Address:
- BURLEY HOUSE, 12, CLARENDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375067
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Burley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURLEY HOUSE, 12, CLARENDON ROAD
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:
- BURLEY HOUSE, 12, CLARENDON ROAD
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 29307 34076
Details
LEEDS
SE2934SW CLARENDON ROAD 714-1/73/114 (North East side) No.12 Burley House
GV II
Formerly known as: No.12 Cornhill House CLARENDON ROAD. House, now offices. 1868, with early C20 alterations. Designed as Hyde Gardens by George Corson. For George Herbert Rayner. Red brick, stone details, slate roof. 2 storeys with basement and attic, 2 x 3 bays, on a corner site. Steps up to raised ground floor left; glazed door in slightly projecting full-height rebuilt gabled bay. To right a semicircular full-height bay on arcaded basement storey with octagonal stone columns and shouldered arches; three 4-pane sashes (curved glass), stone mullions and lintels to ground floor; 3 narrower sashes to 1st floor, eaves cornice of moulded bricks, conical roof. Right return: segmental-headed and round-arched openings, use of darker brick to decorate window heads. Moulded brick eaves cornice carried over attic gable right, gabled dormer centre. Ornate attic storey left: four 4-pane sashes in a hipped-roof dormer flanked by turrets with slit vents and spires with ornate finials. Truncated stack far right. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects (Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson): 1937-: 51; Linstrum, D: The Historic Architecture of Leeds: 1969-: 71).
Listing NGR: SE2930734076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, The Historic Architecture of Leeds, (1969), 71
Butler Wilson, T, Two Architects Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson, (1937), 51
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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