Lincombe

This is a house built in 1898 by F Bedford and S Kitson for the Currer Briggs family. It is constructed of rendered brick with gritstone dressings, featuring a grey slate hipped roof. The house is two storeys high with attics, and comprises three bays, with the left bay projecting and having a hipped roof. The central entrance has an original board door with original hinges and latch, and a later veneered panel on the exterior. The windows have flat-faced mullions and leaded panes; on the ground floor, the left bay is square and the window on the right is tall and has transoms. Deep eaves are supported by scrolled wrought-iron brackets, and there are tall, original corniced stacks with slender, tapering chimney pots to the right and left of the centre, with a taller single-flue stack added to the left return. The left return displays flat-faced mullion windows, a bay window to the right, and a narrow external stack to the left. Inside, a square central hall has a half-glazed door, modern glazing to the overlight, panelling, and a plate shelf. There are six-panel doors with brass handles and finger plates; a staircase rises from the rear wall. The front left room contains a blocked original ingle-nook style fireplace against an internal partition wall, with a more recent fireplace served by the added stack on the left return. The front right room has a panelled dado and a blue slate fireplace with a copper grate. The rear left room has oak panelling, re-set in a corner when a lift was installed, a green-tiled fireplace with a copper surround decorated with bosses, and casement windows with original handles. An original house plan shows the fireplace in the front right room and a rear access before the lift installation, and is signed by Bedford and Kitson. The design by this significant Leeds architectural partnership was contemporary with Voysey’s ‘Broadleys’ in Windermere, also commissioned for the same family.