Description

LEEDS

SE2934NE HILLARY PLACE, University Campus
714-1/72/1154 (South side)
Nos.6 AND 7
School of Education

GV II

Includes: Nos.24 AND 26 LODGE STREET University Campus.
Pair of houses, now part of the University of Leeds School of
Education. Completed 1861. Possibly by Elisha Backhouse who
lived in No.6; No.7 for Joseph Ingham, nail manufacturer. Red
brick, stone details, slate roof, chimney stacks forward of
ridge, left and right.
A mirror pair, of 3 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. The
doorway to No.7 (right) altered to a window but retaining the
original rusticated pilasters, entablature with carved panel,
moulded dentilled cornice and scrolled panel above, as No.6.
Fenestration: 4-pane sashes; architraves to ground floor,
keystone and bracketed sills to 1st floor; shorter 2nd-floor
windows have flat brick arches and stone sills. Stone band at
1st-floor level, boxed-in eaves.
INTERIOR: the narrow entrance hall to No.6 has paired columns
in antis, a round arch and egg-and-dart moulding with
modillion cornice. The full-height staircase has turned
balusters some with deeply carved leaf motifs, ramped
handrail.
Joseph Ingham's manufactory was at Calf Garth Mill, Hunslet.
The pair of houses was purchased by the University in 1963.

Listing NGR: SE2957034536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547165

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings