Devonshire Hall University of Leeds
DEVONSHIRE HALL UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375323
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Devonshire Hall University of Leeds
- Statutory Address:
- DEVONSHIRE HALL UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375323
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Devonshire Hall University of Leeds
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVONSHIRE HALL UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, 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:
- DEVONSHIRE HALL UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, 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 28717 35871
Details
LEEDS
SE2835NE CUMBERLAND ROAD, Headingley 714-1/65/736 (West side) Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds
GV II
Hall of residence for the University of Leeds. 1928. By JC Proctor and FL Charlton. Snecked stonework to lower walling, rendered above, slate roofs. 3 storeys with attics and single-storey linking ranges, a courtyard complex linked to the 2 mid C19 semi-detached houses on the site (qv) and composed of the main east-facing block 5 bays wide with 9-bay L-shaped wings extending at right angles and facing onto Cumberland Road. In C17 'Scottish Baronial' style, the principal features are: triple-arched main facade with central oriel rising through 2 storeys to a crenellated clock turret; board doors with iron studs and fittings, carved lintels; 4-centred arches in square chamfered surrounds surmounted by shield and stepped hoodmoulds on side wings; gabled projecting staircase bays; colonnaded ground floor to rear of wings; attic storey with gabled 3-light dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected. The University leased the former Wesleyan College on Headingley Lane, now Mount St Joseph's College (qv), as a residence 1924-c1930, called Devonshire Hall after the then Chancellor. As the lease expired the Regent Court Hotel was initially bought and extended on this site; when the new hall was completed the name was transferred. The architect also designed the forecourt to the Leeds Town Hall (qv) and the Algernon Firth Institute of Pathology, St George's Road (qv). (Gosden, PHJH & Taylor, AJ: Studies in the History of a University: Leeds: 1974-: 59, 136).
Listing NGR: SE2871735871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gosden, P H, Taylor, A J, Studies in the History of a University 1874-1974, (1974), 136
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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