Highfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House. 7 related planning applications.
Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-chancel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE2835NE 714-1/65/784 05/08/76
LEEDS HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (North East side) No.54 Highfield House
GV II
House, in use as a hall of residence at the time of listing. c1830. For George Bischoff. Ashlar, hipped slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays with recessed outer bays. Central porch with Tuscan columns supporting entablature cornice and blocking piece. Segmental bowed stone bay windows with large 3-light windows, Tuscan pilasters to mullions, cornice and blocking course over. First floor: 3 windows with plain lintels and continuous sill band, similar window bay 5. Eaves cornice, shallow blocking course, end stacks. INTERIOR: staircase hall has an oval lantern and Jacobean-style ornate carved balusters of late C19 type. George Bischoff purchased 122,000 square yards of the estate of Mrs Barbara Bainbrigge in 1827 and built this house, probably as a speculation. Samuel Glover, druggist, bought the house soon after. Later used as a hall of residence for Leeds Polytechnic. (Douglas, J (Victorian Society), pers. comm.).
Listing NGR: SE2853435755
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