Description

LEEDS

SE2835NW HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley
714-1/64/776 (South West side)
05/08/76 Buckingham House

GV II

Large house, now offices of Social Services Department. c1840
with later C19 additions. Coursed squared and hammer-dressed
gritstone and ashlar, slate roof.
Main 2-storey house of 3 x 5 windows with single-storey wings
added to N side forming a U-plan. Entrance front, W side:
central entrance has modern glazed double doors with margin
lights, deep console brackets and cornice above; single-storey
porch with Ionic columns in antis, entablature and cornice
with blocking course. Large sashes with glazing bars,
first-floor and sill bands, corner pilasters, entablature,
cornice and blocking course. Tall ashlar stacks flank centre
bay. Single-storey 4-bay wing to left has plate-glass sashes,
pilasters to moulded entablature, cornice and moulded blocking
course. Right return: central 3-window bay breaks forward
slightly and is pedimented.
INTERIOR: Classical moulded plasterwork to lobby with
egg-and-dart and acanthus motifs, square columns in antis,
fine top-lit staircase hall, cantilevered 2-flight stairs with
scroll and acanthus pattern to balustrade.

Listing NGR: SE2838635687

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547515

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)