University Of Leeds School Of Education

LEEDS

SE2934NE HILLARY PLACE, University Campus 714-1/72/1155 (South side) Nos.8 AND 9 University of Leeds School of Education

GV II

Includes: Nos.28 AND 30 LODGE STREET University Campus. House, now part of the University of Leeds School of Education. 1872. For TW Harding. Red brick, Flemish bond, rock-faced stone plinth and ashlar details, slate roof with truncated central stack. 3-storey corner site, the Hillary Place facade is of 4 bays, the left entrance bay recessed; the Cavendish Road facade is of 3 bays with central entrance and a recessed semicircular bay set back on the right. Plinth and quoins. Facade to Hillary Place: steps up to paired half-glazed doors with etched glass, plain fanlight, in ashlar round arch with bracketed cornice and blocking piece. Fenestration: cross-frame casements and stone architraves throughout, segmental heads to ground and 2nd floors, more elaborate 1st-floor detailing including moulded sill band, bracketed sills and deep cornices above tiled entablatures, segmental pediment far left. Bracketed and dentilled eaves cornice with blocking course. Facade to Cavendish Road (right return): entrance as Hillary Place, elaborate ground-floor fenestration with a semicircular bay window left, a 3-light pedimented window right, both with blue tiled band below cornice; 1st-, 2nd-floor and eaves detailing as Hillary Place facade. INTERIOR: Hillary Place: modillion ceiling cornice, oval stair well, substantial wooden staircase with column-on-vase balusters and wide ramped handrail. Cavendish Road entrance is into a narrow lobby with modillion cornice, round arch with pelican and foliage motifs; the staircase has a lion-mask terminal and wrought-iron balustrade with scrolls, ivy-leaf and flower motifs. TW Harding established the Tower Works in Globe Road (qv), manufacturing steel combing and carding pins, in the early 1860s. The house was purchased by the University in 1958.

Listing NGR: SE2955434536