Description

LEEDS

SE2934NE HILLARY PLACE, University Campus
714-1/72/1155 (South side)
Nos.8 AND 9
University of Leeds School of
Education

GV II

Includes: Nos.28 AND 30 LODGE STREET University Campus.
House, now part of the University of Leeds School of
Education. 1872. For TW Harding. Red brick, Flemish bond,
rock-faced stone plinth and ashlar details, slate roof with
truncated central stack. 3-storey corner site, the Hillary
Place facade is of 4 bays, the left entrance bay recessed; the
Cavendish Road facade is of 3 bays with central entrance and a
recessed semicircular bay set back on the right. Plinth and
quoins.
Facade to Hillary Place: steps up to paired half-glazed doors
with etched glass, plain fanlight, in ashlar round arch with
bracketed cornice and blocking piece. Fenestration:
cross-frame casements and stone architraves throughout,
segmental heads to ground and 2nd floors, more elaborate
1st-floor detailing including moulded sill band, bracketed
sills and deep cornices above tiled entablatures, segmental
pediment far left. Bracketed and dentilled eaves cornice with
blocking course.
Facade to Cavendish Road (right return): entrance as Hillary
Place, elaborate ground-floor fenestration with a semicircular
bay window left, a 3-light pedimented window right, both with
blue tiled band below cornice; 1st-, 2nd-floor and eaves
detailing as Hillary Place facade.
INTERIOR: Hillary Place: modillion ceiling cornice, oval stair
well, substantial wooden staircase with column-on-vase
balusters and wide ramped handrail. Cavendish Road entrance is
into a narrow lobby with modillion cornice, round arch with
pelican and foliage motifs; the staircase has a lion-mask
terminal and wrought-iron balustrade with scrolls, ivy-leaf
and flower motifs.
TW Harding established the Tower Works in Globe Road (qv),
manufacturing steel combing and carding pins, in the early
1860s. The house was purchased by the University in 1958.

Listing NGR: SE2955434536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547166

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