Number 3 Stead House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
Number 3 Stead House
- WRENN ID
- first-transept-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 3 Stead House, Willow Terrace Road, LS2 9JT
- OS grid reference
- SE 295 343
- Coordinates
- 53.80473, -1.55343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 3 Stead House is a house that now serves as premises for Leeds University. It was built in 1821, altered in the late 19th century, and restored around 1992. The building was designed by J.S. Morrish for Julia Lyddon. It is constructed of rendered brick with a slate roof and stone details. The house has two storeys and five bays, with a pediment above the central three bays. The central entrance features a restored six-panel door with a semicircular overlight, framed by three-quarter Tuscan columns and an open pediment. The windows are plate-glass sashes, and there is a round-arched window in the tympanum. Additional architectural features include a first-floor sill band, cornice, and blocking course, as well as end stacks. Restoration work was ongoing at the time of the survey. The house was originally known as Preston Lodge and was the first building on land inherited by Julia Silly (later Lyddon) from her uncle, the wealthy Leeds merchant Wade Preston.
Local climate
Number 3 Stead House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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