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Latitude: 53.8072 / 53°48'25"N
Longitude: -1.5557 / 1°33'20"W
OS Eastings: 429354
OS Northings: 434635
OS Grid: SE293346
Mapcode National: GBR BGH.D0
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.2KGP
Plus Code: 9C5WRC4V+VP
Entry Name: Beech Grove House
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256283
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465086
Also known as: Beech Grove House, University of Leeds
ID on this website: 101256283
Location: Woodhouse, 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: University building
LEEDS
SE2934NW BEECH GROVE TERRACE
714-1/71/1134 (West side (off))
05/08/76 University Campus
Beech Grove House
(Formerly Listed as:
BEECH GROVE TERRACE
University Campus
Beech Grove House including gates
and gate piers to SE of house)
II
House, now Leeds University Dept of Education. 1799, altered
1840 and C20. For Abram Rhodes, with alterations 1840 for John
Ogden March. Ashlar, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys and attic
(modern attic dormers). 3 x 7 bays.
East front: central round-arched porch with attached columns
and moulded cornice; flanking and first-floor plate-glass
sashes, first-floor sill band, recessed rectangular panels
below outer windows, the central window with architrave. Left
return: central 3 windows in a wide semicircular bay, sill
band and panels as front. Large stone stacks to left and right
of ridge.
INTERIOR: reputed to retain mid C19 domestic features
(Beresford p.46).
Abram Rhodes was a leading Leeds cloth merchant and his
property originally included workshops, warehouses and a malt
kiln; John March was an iron founder and machine maker,
working with Matthew Murray.
(Beresford M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press:
1980-: 46).
Listing NGR: SE2935434635
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