Leeds smallest House/oddity

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 04 May, 2013 3:30 pm

I don't know if it is an illusionary effect of Google Street view but this house on Anderson Mount does look to be very thin![img]http://goo.gl/maps/4RU7t[/img] I thought my link would embed the image in my post without the need to click on the link but I was wrong, so please click the link! Sorry!

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Sat 04 May, 2013 6:21 pm

Leodian wrote: I don't know if it is an illusionary effect of Google Street view but this house on Anderson Mount does look to be very thin![img]http://goo.gl/maps/4RU7t[/img] I thought my link would embed the image in my post without the need to click on the link but I was wrong, so please click the link! Sorry! It does look very narrow, but I suspect it's actually the normal depth of a back-to-back house and looks thin because it's missing its other half!

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 04 May, 2013 6:59 pm

The majority of Leeds's back-to-back houses have c13 feet deep rooms. Looking at the picture that Leodian linked to the "thin" house seems to be no more than 6 feet deep, by roughly scaling against the heights of the door and windows. Looks like a contender to me!

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Sat 04 May, 2013 11:27 pm

But if you look at the house from the other side, a wheelie bin is 3.5ft tall and I think the depth of the house is at least three wheelie bins (laid end to end) deep.http://goo.gl/maps/RgOSw

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun 05 May, 2013 12:32 am

Tasa wrote: But if you look at the house from the other side, a wheelie bin is 3.5ft tall and I think the depth of the house is at least three wheelie bins (laid end to end) deep.http://goo.gl/maps/RgOSw I agree, about 10 feet wide at that end, but look at the overhead view, the house is tapered! The end shown in the picture Leodian posted earlier is narrower and will measure only 7 - 8 feet.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sun 05 May, 2013 9:12 am

Leodian wrote: I don't know if it is an illusionary effect of Google Street view but this house on Anderson Mount does look to be very thin![img]http://goo.gl/maps/4RU7t[/img] I thought my link would embed the image in my post without the need to click on the link but I was wrong, so please click the link! Sorry! That's Incredible Leo!In crow Lane Otley there's a stand alone house with a very big gable end.As you walk past the frontage it's got a window and a door before another big gable end. It's about 14 foot wide.It's a bit like a long corridor.No offence to the owner, he/she has it looking nice and he/she actually has named it the "Tardis".....

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Sun 05 May, 2013 10:09 am

jim wrote: Tasa wrote: But if you look at the house from the other side, a wheelie bin is 3.5ft tall and I think the depth of the house is at least three wheelie bins (laid end to end) deep.http://goo.gl/maps/RgOSw I agree, about 10 feet wide at that end, but look at the overhead view, the house is tapered! The end shown in the picture Leodian posted earlier is narrower and will measure only 7 - 8 feet. Thanks Jim, I hadn't taken into account the tapering, which can be seen in this Old-Maps image from 1921 - for some reason, the school wall has a bend in it. As the school and houses were constructed sometime between 1908 and 1921 (as they don't appear in the 1908 map), I wonder why the wall couldn't be straight and I wonder which came first - school or houses? It looks as if the wall follows an old boundary because you can see an imaginary continuation of the wall across the Keplers.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Sun 05 May, 2013 10:50 am

The Anderson Mount bottom house does look 'tapered' from the Google BirdsEyeView. Maybe it is an illusion because it's painted in that fetching shade of blue, or that the gable end is the other way round to the others in the street. Or maybe it is actually tapered. Perhaps these houses were actually built like that on account of the school playground. Does it depend on what came first, the school or the houses?This is interesting - to me at any rate. On Google, the street view Leodian took is the October 2012 version. If you manoeuvre to the bottom of the slope going up to St James', it transfers to the 2008 version when the school was still in situ and the car park was just a Leeds City Council idea. Substantial building too. How many new primary schools are we supposed to need in the next few years? And even more so in densely populated areas like this one.*Not Leeds Alert*On 'long corridors', as in Parksider's post above, what about the Crown Posada in Newcastle. A great pub which is about fifteen feet wide but when you need to pay a call it's a fifty yard walk. This might be a slight exaggeration but I may also have actually underestimated. There is an internal image here......http://www.crownposadanewcastle.co.uk/Edit : I wrote this before I saw Jim's - another edit sorry. I meant Tasa, not Jim - latest post above.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Sun 05 May, 2013 10:51 am

The school came first Tasa it's here on this 1908 mapModern map

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun 05 May, 2013 11:00 am

You beat me to half of it uncle mick! The reason for the curving boundary can be seen on the 1891 1:500 map, which shows the situation before the school and Gledhow Road were built. It is purely down to the previous field boundary, and therefore the land plots available to builders and planners. As many houses as were possible were shoehorned into available sites,leading to decidedly odd ground plans.Take a look at Simpson Grove and the Mitfords in Armley to see tapered end rooms and even triangular floor plan dwellings.