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Latitude: 53.8062 / 53°48'22"N
Longitude: -1.5521 / 1°33'7"W
OS Eastings: 429591
OS Northings: 434531
OS Grid: SE295345
Mapcode National: GBR BHH.5C
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4L4F
Plus Code: 9C5WRC4X+F4
Entry Name: School of Education
Listing Date: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255932
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465461
ID on this website: 101255932
Location: Bagby Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2
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: School building
LEEDS
SE2934NE HILLARY PLACE, University Campus
714-1/72/1153 (South side)
No.5
School of Education
GV II
Includes: No.22 LODGE STREET University Campus.
House, now part of Leeds University School of Education. 1852,
altered later C19. For John Crofts, mill owner. Red brick,
stone details, slate roof, reduced stacks forward of ridge to
left and right of centre.
3 storeys, a plain rectangular building of 7 x 3 bays. A wide
central entrance with paired 4-panel double doors, plain
fanlight, ashlar rusticated pilasters, moulded imposts and
architrave, keystone and cornice. Plate-glass sash windows,
stone sill bands, bracketed sills to 1st and 2nd floors.
Wooden gutter brackets; closely-set purlin ends on gabled left
return.
INTERIOR: a wide entrance lobby with moulded plaster ceiling,
screen with etched glazing to door, paired Corinthian columns
in antis support round archways left and right leading to
corridors, archway in front to large staircase hall with
panelled surround to fireplace. 6-panel doors, moulded ceiling
cornices. The main staircase rising to the 1st floor has
turned balusters and a gallery with scrolled wrought-iron
balustrade, top lit and having a moulded coved plaster
ceiling. A 2nd service staircase has turned column-on-vase
balusters and rises to the top of the house. Several rooms
reputed to retain original fireplaces, plaster detailing. John
Crofts was one of the partners in Crofts, Donisthorpe and Co.,
of Larchfield Mills, Hunslet. In 1917 the house was the home
of the Vicar of Leeds; in 1926 it was purchased by the
University.
(Gosden, PHJH & Taylor AJ: Studies in the History of a
University: Leeds: 1974-).
Listing NGR: SE2959134531
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