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Ashwood

A Grade II Listed Building in Headingley, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8172 / 53°49'1"N

Longitude: -1.5665 / 1°33'59"W

OS Eastings: 428639

OS Northings: 435742

OS Grid: SE286357

Mapcode National: GBR BDC.3F

Mapcode Global: WHC9C.XB70

Plus Code: 9C5WRC8M+VC

Entry Name: Ashwood

Listing Date: 8 May 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255984

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465381

ID on this website: 101255984

Location: Headingley Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Headingley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Headingley St Michael

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2835NE HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley
714-1/65/766 (North East side)
08/05/73 No.48
Ashwood

GV II

House, now flats. c1836, altered early C20. Probably by John
Child for Joseph Austin. Ashlar, roof concealed. 2 storeys
over basement, E-facing entrance facade of 3 bays. Tudor style
with Perpendicular-style tracery and hoodmoulds to windows.
Plinth.
Central gabled entrance bay projects: 6-panel door with
overlight in shallow ogee arch with hoodmould, oriel window
above; octagonal buttresses rise as moulded and castellated
chimneys. Outer bays: 2 blind windows to ground floor and two
2-light windows to 1st floor left; a projecting 2 light bay
window ground floor and two 2-light 1st-floor windows to
right. Moulded string at 1st-floor sill and eaves levels;
moulded blocking course, tall moulded stacks.
Left return: 2 canted bay windows to ground floor, 4
first-floor windows as front. Right return: a projecting
2-window wing and added oriel window.
INTERIOR: octagonal entrance hall with two 4-centred arched
crocketed niches and archway to octagonal stair hall with
rooms off, ?early C20 blue and white mosaic floor, turned
balusters to stairs which are top lit, coved ceiling. 6-panel
doors, some with arched top panels, Art Nouveau-style stained
glass in several windows, shutters; ceiling cornice with vine
motif to front right, remains of original plaster ceiling with
bands of Tudor roses and cornice in rear right which also has
probably early C20 panelled dado, door and fireplace of large
green marble slabs.
Joseph Austin was a woolstapler and prominent Roman Catholic;
John Child was a fellow Catholic who later speculated in house
building in the Headingley area. Joseph's son Alfred Austin,
poet laureate 1896-1913, lived here as a child 1835-57.
(Douglas, J (Victorian Society) pers. comm.).



Listing NGR: SE2863935742

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