Description

LEEDS

SE23NE WEETWOOD LANE, Weetwood
714-1/6/1230 (West side (off))
Oxley Hall, Leeds University, and
attached terrace walls

GV II

Formerly known as: Weetwood Villa WEETWOOD LANE Weetwood.
Formerly known as: The Elms WEETWOOD LANE Weetwood.
Large house with terrace walls and steps, now hall of
residence. c1861, altered late 1880s and c1930. By John
Simpson. For Henry Oxley, banker. Altered by WH Thorp,
probably late 1880s. Coursed gritstone and ashlar, grey slate
roof in decorative bands and with fish-scale slates. 2 storeys
with attics, irregular facades with 6 and 4 first-floor
windows, Jacobethan style.
Entrance front has a round-arched doorway with moulded and
keyed arch, pilasters and cornice. Mullion and transom
windows, 1st-floor string. Elaborate stone pierced parapets
and Dutch gables, ridge stack taken down. Left return, to
gardens: central projecting bay with large 6-light pedimented
ground-floor window, oriel above, single light to upper stage
of square tower with bracketed eaves and splayed roof with
ornate wrought-iron cresting and wind vane. Vase and ball
finials to Dutch gable left, stack right reduced in height, as
are 2 others.
Rear link range: double doors in keyed surround, carved plaque
above, flanking 3-light mullion and transom windows.
INTERIOR: fine staircase hall has polychrome tile floor and a
cantilevered stone staircase with ornate iron balustrade. Hall
of residence extension c1930 linked to house by 5-bay
orangery-style arcade of round arches, an L-plan 3-storey
block with wide shaped gable matching the house, central
Tudor-arched entrance, cornice and 2-storey stair window with
carved parapet, mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rear low ramped wall with plain railing
and piers with short obelisk finials and double gates encloses
a small courtyard. Terrace walls to garden front have pierced
stone parapet and 2 flights of stone steps with balustrades
and vases.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Naylor, stuff merchant, was the major
purchaser of the Englefield Estate in 1858. He sold 7 acres to
Henry Oxley, banker shortly after 1861. Henry Oxley was living
at Weetwood Villa, also called 'The Elms' by 1864; his son,
James, lived at Spenfield (qv) and by 1897 Arthur J Tannett
Walker lived here. c1920 JW Oxley gave the house and grounds

to the University and it was adapted as a Hall for women
students, opened October 1921; the extension to house 70
students was opened c1930.
(Kelly et al., Directories of Leeds: 1863-1910; Douglas J,
Victorian Society (pers.comm.): 1992-).

Listing NGR: SE2724437807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547320

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