Elmfield
ELMFIELD, 12 AND 13, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375299
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Elmfield
- Statutory Address:
- ELMFIELD, 12 AND 13, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375299
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Elmfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELMFIELD, 12 AND 13, CUMBERLAND 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:
- ELMFIELD, 12 AND 13, CUMBERLAND 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 28808 35834
Details
LEEDS
SE2835NE CUMBERLAND ROAD, Headingley 714-1/65/731 (East side) Nos.12 AND 13 Elmfield
GV II
House, now University of Leeds premises. 1846. By Thomas Shaw. probably later C19 additions. Coursed squared stone, blue slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central pilastered porch with half-glazed double doors, entablature, modillion cornice. Left: a single-storey canted bay window with cornice similar to porch; right: a 2-storey square bay with 2-light window to each storey, a segmental moulding and carved panel above the ground-floor window, dentilled cornice and blocking course to 1st floor. Centre and left, 1st floor: a single and a 2-light window in moulded architraves; continuous sill moulding. Modillion eaves cornice. Tall dentilled stacks to left and right, behind ridge line. INTERIOR: not inspected. Built for the architect, this is probably the 'Enfield' occupied by Mrs Hammond c1881 and Thomas Hammond, dyer, of Cumberland Road, c1878. The porch and canted bay window are possibly later additions. (Janet Douglas, Victorian Society, pers. comm.). (Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds, 6" scale: 1850-; McCorquodale: Directory of Leeds: 1878-; Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1881-).
Listing NGR: SE2880835834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466194
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1881)
McCorquodale in Directory ofLeeds, (1878)
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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