Clarendon House

CLARENDON HOUSE, 20, CLARENDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375078
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Clarendon House
Statutory Address:
CLARENDON HOUSE, 20, CLARENDON ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375078
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Clarendon House
Statutory Address 1:
CLARENDON HOUSE, 20, 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CLARENDON HOUSE, 20, 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 29193 34197

Details

LEEDS

SE2934SW CLARENDON ROAD 714-1/73/118 (North side) No.20 Clarendon House

GV II

House, now offices. 1853-1857. For William Braithwaite, surgeon. Brick, Flemish bond with contrasting headers, stone details, slate roof. House of 2 storeys and 3 x 3 bays, the central entrance bay projecting, and with a 3-bay single storey range to right. Quoins. The house has 4-panel double doors and fanlight in a pilastered surround, 3-light semicircular oriel above. 4-pane sashes throughout, all in architraves, those to ground floor having entablature and cornice. Deep modillion eaves cornice throughout. Tall ornate brick stacks flank the central bay, with 3 further stacks to rear. The single-storey range has a central doorway, now a window, and the gabled right bay breaks forward, the window set in a recessed panel with brick dentils. Left return: fenestration as front. Right return: the ground slope allows a raised ground floor, 4 unequal bays divided by brick pilasters, an ornate blocked doorway with stone round arch and segmental pediment far right. Two 4-pane sashes in segmental brick arches centre, far left the slightly projecting flue of an ornate eaves stack. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-).



Listing NGR: SE2919334197

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Legacy System number:
465958
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Beresford, M, Walks Round Red Brick, (1980)

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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.

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