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Burley House

A Grade II Listed Building in Hyde Park and Woodhouse, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8022 / 53°48'7"N

Longitude: -1.5565 / 1°33'23"W

OS Eastings: 429307

OS Northings: 434076

OS Grid: SE293340

Mapcode National: GBR BGJ.7T

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.2P2K

Plus Code: 9C5WRC2V+VC

Entry Name: Burley House

Listing Date: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375067

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465947

ID on this website: 101375067

Location: 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

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Description


LEEDS

SE2934SW CLARENDON ROAD 714-1/73/114 (North East side) No.12 Burley House

GV II

Formerly known as: No.12 Cornhill House CLARENDON ROAD. House, now offices. 1868, with early C20 alterations. Designed as Hyde Gardens by George Corson. For George Herbert Rayner. Red brick, stone details, slate roof. 2 storeys with basement and attic, 2 x 3 bays, on a corner site. Steps up to raised ground floor left; glazed door in slightly projecting full-height rebuilt gabled bay. To right a semicircular full-height bay on arcaded basement storey with octagonal stone columns and shouldered arches; three 4-pane sashes (curved glass), stone mullions and lintels to ground floor; 3 narrower sashes to 1st floor, eaves cornice of moulded bricks, conical roof. Right return: segmental-headed and round-arched openings, use of darker brick to decorate window heads. Moulded brick eaves cornice carried over attic gable right, gabled dormer centre. Ornate attic storey left: four 4-pane sashes in a hipped-roof dormer flanked by turrets with slit vents and spires with ornate finials. Truncated stack far right. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects (Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson): 1937-: 51; Linstrum, D: The Historic Architecture of Leeds: 1969-: 71).



Listing NGR: SE2930734076

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