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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547532

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