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Elmfield

A Grade II Listed Building in Headingley, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.818 / 53°49'4"N

Longitude: -1.5639 / 1°33'50"W

OS Eastings: 428808

OS Northings: 435834

OS Grid: SE288358

Mapcode National: GBR BDC.N4

Mapcode Global: WHC9C.Y9GD

Plus Code: 9C5WRC9P+5C

Entry Name: Elmfield

Listing Date: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375299

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466194

ID on this website: 101375299

Location: Woodhouse Cliff, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Headingley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Woodhouse and Wrangthorn

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2835NE CUMBERLAND ROAD, Headingley
714-1/65/731 (East side)
Nos.12 AND 13
Elmfield

GV II

House, now University of Leeds premises. 1846. By Thomas Shaw.
probably later C19 additions. Coursed squared stone, blue
slate hipped roof.
2 storeys, 3 bays. Central pilastered porch with half-glazed
double doors, entablature, modillion cornice. Left: a
single-storey canted bay window with cornice similar to porch;
right: a 2-storey square bay with 2-light window to each
storey, a segmental moulding and carved panel above the
ground-floor window, dentilled cornice and blocking course to
1st floor. Centre and left, 1st floor: a single and a 2-light
window in moulded architraves; continuous sill moulding.
Modillion eaves cornice. Tall dentilled stacks to left and
right, behind ridge line.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Built for the architect, this is probably the 'Enfield'
occupied by Mrs Hammond c1881 and Thomas Hammond, dyer, of
Cumberland Road, c1878. The porch and canted bay window are
possibly later additions. (Janet Douglas, Victorian Society,
pers. comm.).
(Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds, 6" scale: 1850-; McCorquodale:
Directory of Leeds: 1878-; Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1881-).


Listing NGR: SE2880835834

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