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Latitude: 53.8018 / 53°48'6"N
Longitude: -1.5624 / 1°33'44"W
OS Eastings: 428920
OS Northings: 434028
OS Grid: SE289340
Mapcode National: GBR BDJ.ZY
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.ZP5W
Plus Code: 9C5WRC2Q+P3
Entry Name: Belle Vue House
Listing Date: 21 August 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255908
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465483
ID on this website: 101255908
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Hyde Park and Woodhouse
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Leeds St George
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House
LEEDS
SE23SE BELLE VIEW LAWN
714-1/10/23 (North West side)
21/08/75 No.3
Belle Vue House
II
Large house, now flats. 1793, converted c1974. For Michael
Wainhouse. Red brick, ashlar plinth, slate hipped roof, end
stacks. Parapet, rebuilt modillion cornice and band at
1st-floor level.
2 storeys and cellar. 1:3:1 windows, centre 3 in projection
with pediment over with elliptical window in tympanum, now
blocked. 4-pane sashes, flat brick arches, sills, continuous
sill bands to 1st floor centre and ground floor. Central
doorway with moulded architrave, fluted frieze and pediment on
console brackets. Palladian stair window at rear.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Belle Vue was built on 3 and a half acres of
land bought by Michael Wainhouse in February 1792 at ยป390 per
acre. It was one of the plain brick villas built late C18 by
cloth merchants wishing to escape from the polluted atmosphere
of Park Square and other central areas. Wainhouse's workshops
and warehouse were at the Park Lane entrance to the long drive
which had to curve up the steep slope to the house.
(Thoresby Society Publication Vols LX & LXI, Nos 131 & 132:
Beresford MW: East End, West End. The Face of Leeds 1684-1842:
Leeds: 1988-: 309, 323, 325).
Listing NGR: SE2892034028
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