19, Springfield Mount

LEEDS

SE2934SW SPRINGFIELD MOUNT 714-1/73/361 (North East side) 22/09/75 No.19 (Formerly Listed as: HYDE TERRACE (North East side) Doctors' Flats (Nos 1-4) (consec))

GV II

Pair of houses, now Health Authority premises. 1837-39 with later C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick and stucco, low-pitched hipped slate roof. 2 storeys over almost full-height basement, 3 bays with 1:2:1 windows to each facade, back-to-back plan. Central bay breaks forward and is flanked by wide pilasters decorated with square incised pattern; restored flight of steps to half-glazed door with overlight in moulded brick surround, the keystone breaking the 1st-floor sill band. Plate-glass sashes throughout, wedge lintels, shallow aprons, continuous sill band to ground and first floors on each facade; eaves band, 4 ridge stacks. Rear: steps up to glazed door in surround with console brackets and triangular pediment, pilasters as front. Left return: outer bays break forward slightly, flanking incised pilasters. Right return: steps up to paired doors with overlights. INTERIOR: each entrance opens into a narrow hall which terminates in a stairwell against the party wall (now broken through). 6-panel doors, moulded ceiling cornices; the staircases are identical, the first flight having reeded balusters and ramped handrail, upper floors and rooms not seen. First occupied by Joseph Burras and William Binns, business partners and cloth dressers, the Hyde Terrace house was approached by a narrow drive. Date of conversion to a single house not known; the building was 4 separate flats by 1975. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 70-72).

Listing NGR: SE2917034335