Ridgeway House

RIDGEWAY HOUSE, CUMBERLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375335
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Ridgeway House
Statutory Address:
RIDGEWAY HOUSE, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Date:
2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375335
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Ridgeway House
Statutory Address 1:
RIDGEWAY HOUSE, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RIDGEWAY HOUSE, 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 28830 35986

Details

LEEDS

SE2835NE CUMBERLAND ROAD, Headingley 714-1/65/743 (East side) Ridgeway House

GV II

House. 1848. For Mr Blackett, a linen yarn draper. Ashlar, hipped slate roofs. In Classical style. 2 storeys with attics and basement, 4 x 3 bays. Plinth. East entrance front: central porch with Tuscan columns and double panelled doors with overlight, blocking course, deep modillion cornice. The wide right bay breaks forward, plate-glass sashes throughout, moulded string course at 1st-floor and sill levels, modillion eaves cornice, large stacks left and right. Left return, the garden front: an irregular facade, the wide left bay has a hipped roof and is possibly a later added range, the central bay, ground floor, has a canted bay window with narrow mullions, console brackets, entablature and blocking course, paired and single lights above. To right the canted bay window has wider mullions, a single light above. INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SE2883035986

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Legacy System number:
466230
Legacy System:
LBS

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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