Beech Grove House

LEEDS

SE2934NW BEECH GROVE TERRACE 714-1/71/1134 (West side (off)) 05/08/76 University Campus Beech Grove House (Formerly Listed as: BEECH GROVE TERRACE University Campus Beech Grove House including gates and gate piers to SE of house)

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House, now Leeds University Dept of Education. 1799, altered 1840 and C20. For Abram Rhodes, with alterations 1840 for John Ogden March. Ashlar, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys and attic (modern attic dormers). 3 x 7 bays. East front: central round-arched porch with attached columns and moulded cornice; flanking and first-floor plate-glass sashes, first-floor sill band, recessed rectangular panels below outer windows, the central window with architrave. Left return: central 3 windows in a wide semicircular bay, sill band and panels as front. Large stone stacks to left and right of ridge. INTERIOR: reputed to retain mid C19 domestic features (Beresford p.46). Abram Rhodes was a leading Leeds cloth merchant and his property originally included workshops, warehouses and a malt kiln; John March was an iron founder and machine maker, working with Matthew Murray. (Beresford M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 46).

Listing NGR: SE2935434635