Description

LEEDS

SE2736SE ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley 714-1/61/714 (North side) 22/09/75 Nos.5 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (North side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of cottages. c1860. Coursed squared gritstone, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. One and a half storeys, 3 bays, the central bay gabled. Long and short ashlar quoins. Facade to roadway has cross-frame windows in rusticated surrounds, 1 altered. Arched entrances in left and right returns, door to No.6 probably original with 4 panels; a small stone-roofed bay window, and 2-light window in gable above. Elaborate eaves and roof detailing includes deep carved wooden eaves brackets, fish-scale slates, crested ridge tiles and 2 large 4-flue corniced eaves stacks, some with tall crenellated chimney pots. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a group of 4 pairs of cottages built on a narrow strip field shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map; the 1872 Directory shows that William Brown, warehouseman, lived at No.5 and Thomas Cartwright, gardener, in No.6. (Porter's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood: 1872-).



Listing NGR: SE2777036276

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