Description

LEEDS

SE2935 WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse
714-1/24/1263 (North side)
05/08/76 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse
Nos.5 AND 5A)

GV II

Formerly known as: Cliff House WOODHOUSE CLIFF Woodhouse.
House. Late C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared
gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays.
Plinth and quoins.
Half-glazed door bay 3 with overlight in plain stone surround.
Windows, ground floor: paired plate-glass sashes in plain
stone surrounds with slender mullions, the sills lowered;
first floor, bays 1, 2 and 4: paired C20 casements in plain
surrounds with flat-faced mullions and continuous sill band;
above entrance: plate-glass sash in Gibbs surround with
keyblock. Eaves band and blocking course, gable copings and
banded ridge stacks at each end and between bays 1 and 2.
INTERIOR: hall entrance passage and landing with elliptical
arch, staircase with turned balusters; roof structure
comprises king post trusses with longitudinal braces, trenched
purlins, the rear roof pitch raised to create an outshut;
elsewhere ceiling beams are encased in plaster.
An important survival of a farmhouse of C17 origin which stood
on the edge of the settlement of Wrangthorn, the land to the E
developed as quarries by the mid C19 (OS map). Previously
known as Cliff House, in 1872 it was the home of Thomas S
Hudson, a woollen merchant of the firm of Hudson, Sykes and
Bousfield of No.19 Wellington Street. (qv).
(Porter's Directory of Leeds: 1872-1873).

Listing NGR: SE2909435609

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547258

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)