40, Hyde Terrace

LEEDS

SE2934SW HYDE TERRACE 714-1/73/217 (North side) No.40

GV II

Vicarage to St George's Church, now hospital stores. 1857. Red brick, Flemish bond, stone dressings, blue slate roof. Quoins. A tall, 3-storey, 3 x 2 bay house. Gothic Revival style. The recessed entrance bay left has a board door in moulded archway with hoodmould and carved stops; in a 4-storey corner turret with arrow slits and a stone oriel on the 1st floor, left return, pyramid roof and wooden belfry-style ventilator. Bay 2 is gabled and projects, trefoil and pointed-arch windows of 4 and 3 lights, trefoil recess in gable. 5-light canted bay window of 2 storeys in bay 3, 4-light gabled dormer above. tall buttressed stacks forward of ridge, centre, and on ridge, right. Left return: the gabled left bay same style as front. Right return: a projecting stack rises through ground and 1st floors and has stone plaques with trefoil and incised cross motifs. INTERIOR: much original detailing survives although the building has been partitioned up in current use. On the S side the main staircase has cast-iron twisted balusters and ramped handrail, main rooms retain internal shutters to windows, panelling below windows, arched window reveal to bay-windowed front room, right, ceiling cornices. A 2nd dogleg stair has twisted balusters and is top-lit; on the 2nd floor fireplaces with original chamfered stone surrounds, one a corner fireplace. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SE2911534320