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

• Wikidata Q26547515

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)