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Springfield House

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.804 / 53°48'14"N

Longitude: -1.5568 / 1°33'24"W

OS Eastings: 429287

OS Northings: 434282

OS Grid: SE292342

Mapcode National: GBR BGJ.54

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.1NY4

Plus Code: 9C5WRC3V+J7

Entry Name: Springfield House

Listing Date: 26 September 1963

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375022

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465902

ID on this website: 101375022

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 HYDE TERRACE, University Campus 714-1/73/1159 (North side (off)) 26/09/63 Springfield House (Formerly Listed as: HYDE TERRACE Springfield House (Diocese of Leeds Curial Offices))

II

Formerly known as: Diocese of Leeds Curial Offices HYDE TERRACE University Campus. House, now University of Leeds premises. 1792, restored C20. For Thomas Livesey. Red brick, stone details, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, 1:3:1 windows, the centre 3 windows break forward with crowning pediment. Stone plinth. Central 6-panel door with fanlight in surround with three-quarter Tuscan columns, entablature, dentilled pediment. Sashes, restored frames, flat brick arches, stone sills, 1st-floor sill band centre, rectangular recessed panels between floors. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Livesey was a cloth dresser; his house is in the same style as Claremont, No.23 Clarendon Road (qv). It was sold 1836 after bankruptcy proceedings, to Samuel Birchall, a Quaker woolstapler who died there 1854; his (?)son Edward, the Leeds architect, b.1838, lived here. The estate was sold in 1865 to the Roman Catholic Diocese and the house became their office, continuing as such until after 1963. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 78-80).



Listing NGR: SE2928734282

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