All Souls House

LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM GROVE 714-1/72/27 (South West side) 05/08/76 All Souls' House (Formerly Listed as: BLACKMAN LANE, Woodhouse Former Vicarage immediately south-east of All Souls Church)

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Former vicarage to All Souls' Church, now flats, with covered passage link to church. Late C19, converted c1978. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement, 7 bays, on sloping site. Gothic Revival style. Facade to road: board door right in moulded pointed arch with hoodmould, crocketed niche above; 2-light mullioned windows to ground floor, cross windows to 1st floor, 2 single-light windows above entrance. Inscription in Gothic lettering above ground-floor windows: 'CHRISTUS MEUM FUNDAMENTUM SIT HUIC DOMO FIRMAMENTUM' ('May Christ be my foundation (and) the support for this house'). Gable copings, inserted roof lights, 4 tall banded ridge stacks. Rear: ashlar-walled basement forms ground floor on this side; 4 bays, end bays project slightly and gabled, covered passage set back on left, octagonal piers and 4 moulded segmental arches, the right arch walled to form a lobby to vicarage entrance, steep-pitched roof. House has 3- and 4-light transom and mullion windows; full-height canted bay window bay 2 with carved shields below 2nd-floor window. 2 dormers with carved barge boards centre. INTERIOR: main stair removed when converted to flats; a service stair at the E end from basement to attics has square-section balusters and newels with ball finials. Although the main rooms on the ground floor have been partitioned the doors with 6 fielded-panels and crenellated architraves remain, also panelled reveals to windows and egg-and-dart ceiling plasterwork. Upper floors not examined.

Listing NGR: SE2997734701