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Latitude: 53.816 / 53°48'57"N
Longitude: -1.5596 / 1°33'34"W
OS Eastings: 429094
OS Northings: 435609
OS Grid: SE290356
Mapcode National: GBR BFC.LW
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.0BMY
Plus Code: 9C5WRC8R+95
Entry Name: 5, Woodhouse Cliff
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255687
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465769
ID on this website: 101255687
Location: Woodhouse Cliff, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6
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: Woodhouse and Wrangthorn
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Building
LEEDS
SE2935 WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse
714-1/24/1263 (North side)
05/08/76 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
WOODHOUSE CLIFF, Woodhouse
Nos.5 AND 5A)
GV II
Formerly known as: Cliff House WOODHOUSE CLIFF Woodhouse.
House. Late C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared
gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays.
Plinth and quoins.
Half-glazed door bay 3 with overlight in plain stone surround.
Windows, ground floor: paired plate-glass sashes in plain
stone surrounds with slender mullions, the sills lowered;
first floor, bays 1, 2 and 4: paired C20 casements in plain
surrounds with flat-faced mullions and continuous sill band;
above entrance: plate-glass sash in Gibbs surround with
keyblock. Eaves band and blocking course, gable copings and
banded ridge stacks at each end and between bays 1 and 2.
INTERIOR: hall entrance passage and landing with elliptical
arch, staircase with turned balusters; roof structure
comprises king post trusses with longitudinal braces, trenched
purlins, the rear roof pitch raised to create an outshut;
elsewhere ceiling beams are encased in plaster.
An important survival of a farmhouse of C17 origin which stood
on the edge of the settlement of Wrangthorn, the land to the E
developed as quarries by the mid C19 (OS map). Previously
known as Cliff House, in 1872 it was the home of Thomas S
Hudson, a woollen merchant of the firm of Hudson, Sykes and
Bousfield of No.19 Wellington Street. (qv).
(Porter's Directory of Leeds: 1872-1873).
Listing NGR: SE2909435609
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