School Of Education

LEEDS

SE2934NE HILLARY PLACE, University Campus 714-1/72/1154 (South side) Nos.6 AND 7 School of Education

GV II

Includes: Nos.24 AND 26 LODGE STREET University Campus. Pair of houses, now part of the University of Leeds School of Education. Completed 1861. Possibly by Elisha Backhouse who lived in No.6; No.7 for Joseph Ingham, nail manufacturer. Red brick, stone details, slate roof, chimney stacks forward of ridge, left and right. A mirror pair, of 3 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. The doorway to No.7 (right) altered to a window but retaining the original rusticated pilasters, entablature with carved panel, moulded dentilled cornice and scrolled panel above, as No.6. Fenestration: 4-pane sashes; architraves to ground floor, keystone and bracketed sills to 1st floor; shorter 2nd-floor windows have flat brick arches and stone sills. Stone band at 1st-floor level, boxed-in eaves. INTERIOR: the narrow entrance hall to No.6 has paired columns in antis, a round arch and egg-and-dart moulding with modillion cornice. The full-height staircase has turned balusters some with deeply carved leaf motifs, ramped handrail. Joseph Ingham's manufactory was at Calf Garth Mill, Hunslet. The pair of houses was purchased by the University in 1963.

Listing NGR: SE2957034536