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Latitude: 53.822 / 53°49'19"N
Longitude: -1.579 / 1°34'44"W
OS Eastings: 427812
OS Northings: 436276
OS Grid: SE278362
Mapcode National: GBR B99.FP
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.Q699
Plus Code: 9C5WRCCC+RC
Entry Name: 7 and 8, Alma Cottages
Listing Date: 22 September 1975
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256563
English Heritage Legacy ID: 464776
ID on this website: 101256563
Location: Headingley, 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: Headingley St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House
LEEDS
SE2736SE ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley
714-1/61/715 (North side)
22/09/75 Nos.7 AND 8
(Formerly Listed as:
ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley
Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))
GV II
Pair of cottages. c1860. Coursed squared gritstone, slate
roof. Gothic Revival style. One and a half storeys, 3 bays,
the central bay gabled. Long and short ashlar quoins. Facade
to roadway has cross-frame windows in rusticated surrounds to
ground floor, paired single lights in gable. Arched entrances
in left and right returns have probably original 4-panel
doors, a small stone-roofed bay window, and 2-light window
above. Elaborate eaves and roof details include deep carved
wooden eaves brackets, fish-scale slates, crested ridge tiles
and 2 large 4-flue corniced ridge stacks, some with tall
crenellated chimney pots.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a group of 4 semi-detached cottages built on a narrow
strip field shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map; the 1872
Directory shows that they were occupied by Mrs Harriet
Darfield, laundress, and Henry Gough, gardener; they were
possibly built for servants working at the houses in Alma
Road.
(Porter's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood: 1872-).
Listing NGR: SE2781236276
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