Description

LEEDS

SE2835NE NORTH HILL ROAD, Headingley
714-1/65/800 (West side)
No.7
Lincombe

GV II

House. 1898. By F Bedford and S Kitson. For the Currer Briggs
family. Rendered brick with gritstone dressings, grey slate
hipped roof.
2 storeys with attics, 3 bays, the left bay projects and is
hipped. Central entrance: original board door, hinges and
latch, added veneered panel on outside. Fenestration:
flat-faced mullions and leaded panes throughout, on the ground
floor the square bay left and tall window right have transoms.
Deep eaves with scrolled wrought-iron brackets, tall original
corniced stacks with slender tapering chimney pots to right,
and left of centre; tall single-flue added stack left. Left
return: flat-faced mullion windows, bay window right, and a
narrow external stack left.
INTERIOR: a square central hall with half-glazed door, modern
glazing to overlight, panelling and plate shelf, 6-panel doors
with brass handles and finger plates, staircase rises from
rear wall. Front left: blocked original ingle-nook style
fireplace against internal partition wall, the present
fireplace against the outside wall is served by the added
stack on left return. Front right: panelled dado, blue slate
fireplace with copper grate. Rear left: oak panelling, re-set
in rear corner when a lift was installed; green-tiled
fireplace has copper surround decorated with bosses, casement
windows have original handles.
An original house plan shows the fireplace front right and
rear access before the lift was installed; it is signed 'for
Mr Hepworth, HM, Bedford and Kitson, architects, 1898'. The
design, by an important Leeds partnership, was contemporary
with Voysey's 'Broadleys', Windermere, built for the same
family.

Listing NGR: SE2859335879

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656066

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