1 And 2, Alma Cottages

LEEDS

SE2736SE ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley 714-1/61/712 (South side) 22/09/75 Nos.1 AND 2 (Formerly Listed as: ALMA COTTAGES, Headingley Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of cottages. c1860, altered C20. Coursed squared gritstone, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. One and a half storeys, 3 bays, the central bay gabled. Long and short ashlar quoins. Facade to roadway has cross-frame windows in rusticated surrounds, windows to No.2 altered. Arched entrances in left and right returns with a small stone roofed bay window and 2 light window in gable above. Elaborate eaves and roof detailing includes deep carved wooden eaves brackets, fish-scale slates, crested ridge tiles and 2 large 4-flue corniced ridge stacks, some with tall battlemented chimney pots. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a group of 4 pairs of cottages built on a narrow strip field shown on the 1850 Ordnance Survey map; the 1872 Directory indicates that Joseph Sunderland, builder lived at No.1 and Thomas Horsfall, woollen printer at No.2. (Porter's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood: 1872-).

Listing NGR: SE2783036260