Springfield House

LEEDS

SE2934SW HYDE TERRACE, University Campus 714-1/73/1159 (North side (off)) 26/09/63 Springfield House (Formerly Listed as: HYDE TERRACE Springfield House (Diocese of Leeds Curial Offices))

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Formerly known as: Diocese of Leeds Curial Offices HYDE TERRACE University Campus. House, now University of Leeds premises. 1792, restored C20. For Thomas Livesey. Red brick, stone details, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, 1:3:1 windows, the centre 3 windows break forward with crowning pediment. Stone plinth. Central 6-panel door with fanlight in surround with three-quarter Tuscan columns, entablature, dentilled pediment. Sashes, restored frames, flat brick arches, stone sills, 1st-floor sill band centre, rectangular recessed panels between floors. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Livesey was a cloth dresser; his house is in the same style as Claremont, No.23 Clarendon Road (qv). It was sold 1836 after bankruptcy proceedings, to Samuel Birchall, a Quaker woolstapler who died there 1854; his (?)son Edward, the Leeds architect, b.1838, lived here. The estate was sold in 1865 to the Roman Catholic Diocese and the house became their office, continuing as such until after 1963. (Beresford, M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds University Press: 1980-: 78-80).

Listing NGR: SE2928734282