Springbank Cottage

LEEDS

SE2835NW HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley 714-1/64/770 (South West side) 05/02/87 Springbank Cottage (Formerly Listed as: HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (South West side) Entrance Lodge to No.53 (John Taylor Teachers' Centre) and attached gateway)

GV II

Entrance lodge with attached gatepiers and gates. Probably c1857 by John Fox for Robert Ellershaw or 1885-6 by William Thorp for William Harvey, as main house, No.53 (qv). Coursed rock-faced sandstone with gritstone dressings; graduated Welsh slate roof; cast-iron gates. Lodge: Jacobethan style, 1 and a half storeys, 2 bays, gable end to road with gateway projecting from porch. Chamfered plinth; chamfered mullion windows; stopped hoodmoulds; curvilinear gables with ashlar kneelers, coping and finials. Entrance front: central porch with pointed-arch entrance, tall gable with raised shield and inner Tudor-arched board door in chamfered surround flanked by 2-light windows with 2 single-light through eaves dormers above; offset cross-ridge stack with triple diagonal-set flues. Right gable: 3-light under 2-light window; gable motif with hoodmould. INTERIOR: not inspected. Gateway: short section of wall links porch to N gate pier; another section runs from S gate pier and turns at right angles to terminate at roadside pier. Wall approx 1.5m high with chamfered coping. Piers: square on plan with plinths, 2-piece pyramidal capstones, and lucarnes to gate piers. Double gates have 2 horizontal sections, bars and rails forming cusped panels; scalloped top with fleur-de-lis finials.

Listing NGR: SE2813535835