Numbers 79, 81, 83 and 83A and Attached Outbuildings

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SE2736SE OTLEY ROAD, Headingley 714-1/61/810 (West side) 24/05/90 Nos.79, 81, 83 AND 83A and attached outbuildings

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Row of houses, now offices, including shop, with outbuildings attached to north. Early C19 with late C19 alterations, outbuildings probably C18; refurbished and altered c1993. Houses of coursed gritstone rubble with grey slate roof, eaves band, moulded gutter brackets, gable copings, 4 stone ridge stacks, that to right end reduced in height; outbuildings of squared and coursed rubble with stone slate roofs, gable coping right, brick stack to corner of single-storey section, rear. Houses: 2 storeys and basement, first-floor band, 8 first-floor windows: sashes with glazing bars, alternate windows tripartite sashes; far right altered to paired plate-glass sashes in plain stone surround. Ground floor: the original design of 2 mirrored pairs of houses is clear to centre and left, each with a tripartite sash and 6-panel door and overlight in plain stone surround with tie-stone jambs, the 2 centre doors blocked and the entrance far left (No.79) having 2 stone steps. To right of centre (No.81): original doorway blocked and entrance with stone steps inserted immediately to left, plain jambs, door and overlight as No.79. Right: late C20 shop entrance and window. Lintels of basement windows at street level centre and left. Rear: an original small-pane window to first floor, left of centre; other windows enlarged. Outbuilding range, road frontage: small C19, early C20 shop door and window far left, single-storey and taller block to right with inserted shop facade, coursing runs through with breaks on roof-truss line to right of centre on single-storey block, and to left of centre on taller block. Rear: 4 different building uses are suggested by the style of this range, from left to right: i) 2-storey, 3-bay barn, the right bay breaks forward slightly; built of large squared blocks with herringbone tooling, blocked cart entrance left, other altered later openings, small square loading door in gable left return; ii) 2-storey, 2-bay stable/cottage, openings altered on ground floor, square opening above; iii) single-storey 4-bay stable/byre, possibly a smithy, brick stack to eaves left, small-paned window; iv) taller single-storey outbuilding.

INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the land was owned by the Earls of Cardigan in the C18, the outbuildings were possibly built as a smallholding encroachment on the road edge, several enclosures are shown on the west side of the Otley Road in 1834 (Baines and Newsome), in an area otherwise sparsely populated. The row of houses was possibly a building speculation by the Earl of Cardigan, the style being similar to estate housing of the period, the earlier buildings retained as outbuildings. The alterations from 4 small houses to 3 probably took place soon after construction, as by 1846 (Tithe Award) the land was described as 3 houses, garden and outbuildings, part owned by Henry Mitchell, architect (?designer), Windsor Charlesworth and the Earl of Cardigan. In the same year the land was sold to the Headingley Turnpike Trust. Shops were inserted by the end of the C19 and included W Abbey and Sons, seedsmen, who cultivated the gardens behind, employees living in the houses. (Baines and Newsome: Map of Leeds: 1834-; Douglas, J (Victorian Society): pers. comm.).



Listing NGR: SE2778036365

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Sources

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Powell, K, Douglas, J, Victorian Society, (1992)

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Title: Map of the Borough of Leeds Source Date: 1834 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

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