Elmfield

LEEDS

SE2835NE CUMBERLAND ROAD, Headingley 714-1/65/731 (East side) Nos.12 AND 13 Elmfield

GV II

House, now University of Leeds premises. 1846. By Thomas Shaw. probably later C19 additions. Coursed squared stone, blue slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central pilastered porch with half-glazed double doors, entablature, modillion cornice. Left: a single-storey canted bay window with cornice similar to porch; right: a 2-storey square bay with 2-light window to each storey, a segmental moulding and carved panel above the ground-floor window, dentilled cornice and blocking course to 1st floor. Centre and left, 1st floor: a single and a 2-light window in moulded architraves; continuous sill moulding. Modillion eaves cornice. Tall dentilled stacks to left and right, behind ridge line. INTERIOR: not inspected. Built for the architect, this is probably the 'Enfield' occupied by Mrs Hammond c1881 and Thomas Hammond, dyer, of Cumberland Road, c1878. The porch and canted bay window are possibly later additions. (Janet Douglas, Victorian Society, pers. comm.). (Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds, 6" scale: 1850-; McCorquodale: Directory of Leeds: 1878-; Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1881-).

Listing NGR: SE2880835834