Description

LEEDS

SE2836SW WOOD LANE, Headingley
714-1/62/829 (North side (off))
05/08/76 Wheatfield House
(Formerly Listed as:
WOOD LANE, Headingley
Wheatfield House (Adult Training
Centre))

GV II

Formerly known as: Wheatfield Lodge Headingley.
House, now hospice. c1855 with c1900 extension to rear by
Thomas Butler Wilson, altered and extended late C20. Coursed
squared gritstone and ashlar, slate roof. 2 and 3 storeys, 4
bays; single-storey hospice range added to E side 1985.
Italianate style.
South front: central porch with Tuscan columns in antis,
entablature and dentilled cornice, square tower above with
architrave and cornice to 1st-floor window and 3 round-arched
lights to 2nd; shallow pyramidal roof. Left bay has canted bay
window to ground floor, paired and single-light windows to 1st
and 2nd floors, shallow gable above; 2 narrow bays to right
set back, with plain windows. Deep boxed and bracketed eaves,
tall corniced stacks centre and left.
Rear: a projecting wing built over the boundary wall has a
central 3-light bowed window and round angle turrets, moulded
string at sill levels and egg-and-dart moulding to line of
former wall top; eaves detailing matches front.
INTERIOR: hall with marble Ionic columns supporting heavy
entablature with decorated frieze, the doorways have
egg-and-dart mouldings to architraves with pulvinated oak-leaf
friezes with cornices. Good marble open-well stairs with
wrought-iron balusters, and arcading to landing supported on
groups of 4 Tuscan columns, stairwell ceiling has entablature
supported on consoles. Series of good principal rooms,
probable dining room right has paired Ionic columns supporting
entablatures along each side of room, niches at end and
plaster ceiling.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SE2820036370

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547252

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey