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Description: | 27th April 1982
View of Springfield House with entrances of Hyde Street and Seminary Street and part of the Univesity campus. At this time the building was in a state of disrepair with boarded up windows and a sign warning, 'Dangerous Building, keep well clear'. Nowadays, the building has new wings built on to each side and is the base of Covance Clinical Research Unit Ltd., a drug development service company. In June 1792 a clothdresser named Thomas Livesey bought a field called Well Close and erected this house in the same architectural style as other substantial houses in the locality, for example, Claremont, at number 23 Clarendon Road. Springfield House is built in red brick with stone details and is situated off the north side of Hyde Terrace. It was advertised for sale in the Leeds Mercury in 1799 (17th May) and features included a dining room, drawing room, kitchen, storeroom, back kitchen, pantry and brewhouse. There were 'nine spacious and airy Lodging-Rooms with commodious dressing rooms'. Also included was a water closet and a supply of 'hard and fast water'. Springfield lodge is as the right edge. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Hyde Terrace Springfield Lodge listed Seminary Street Sprinfield House Hyde Street University | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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