Description

LEEDS

SE33SW BURTON AVENUE, Hunslet
714-1/11/862 (North East side)
05/08/76 Burton House
(Formerly Listed as:
BURTON AVENUE, Hunslet
Burton House (Annex for Cockburn
High School))

II

Large house, now offices. Late C18. Red brick, slate hipped
roof. 2 storeys, square plan, 1:3:1 windows. Centre 3 in
slight projection with wide pediment.
Moulded dentilled cornice. Band at floor level. Stone lintels,
apron panels, and sill band to 1st-floor centre 3 windows,
centre one in moulded architrave with dentilled cornice. Good
central doorway with Roman Doric engaged columns, open
pediment and good traceried fanlight, fielded-panel door. All
sashes with glazing bars.
Right-hand return elevation 5 bays, centre 2-storeyed bow of 3
sashes with dentilled eaves cornice continuing around. Low
wing at rear 2 storeys, 1 bay, ground-floor Venetian window
with cornice and pulvinated frieze over side lights and
round-headed central light with keyblock, doorway to side also
with moulded round arch with keyblock.
Left hand return of main building, 6 bays, 2 blocked,
1st-floor tall round-headed stair sash window with
intersecting glazing bars, doorway below in moulded architrave
with rectangular traceried fanlight and fluted frieze and
cornice, to left good ground-floor semicircular bowed bay
window in wood of 3 curved sashes, with fluted frieze and
cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE3024131445

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547364

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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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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living