Leeds smallest House/oddity

DazB · Post by **DazB** » Wed 08 May, 2013 11:11 pm

This is right up there with the smallest house i have known....http://planningapplications.leeds.gov.u ... ap=true65a Whingate, near Armley. If you look on streetview you can see it is probably only about 8 feet wide and the planning app boundary drawing is 100% correct as I know the owner of the house behind it.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 08 May, 2013 11:17 pm

D'oh! I used to live opposite that, you could be right. Tiny.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Thu 09 May, 2013 3:46 pm

[quotenick="DazB"]65a Whingate, near Armley. If you look on streetview you can see it is probably only about 8 feet wide and the planning app boundary drawing is 100% correct as I know the owner of the house behind it. I think this has to be the leading contender so far. Picture & maps herehttp://flic.kr/s/aHsjF3h62Q

DazB · Post by **DazB** » Thu 13 Jun, 2013 12:32 am

Any advance on the smallest house theme other than the Whingate property ?

simong · Post by **simong** » Thu 13 Jun, 2013 6:37 pm

tilly wrote: Hi Parksider Just took this what do you think? Radcliffe Lane Pudsey. There are a few similar houses in some of the roads off New Street in Farsley, which is an assortment of through terraces, back to backs and cottages in small squares which was presumably built for one of the mills. It's an area that's not very well documented on Leodis as we found with the Westroyd Park bench mark.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 15 Jun, 2013 2:01 pm

DazB wrote: Any advance on the smallest house theme other than the Whingate property ? Yes Daz, it's the Moseley Farm Labourers cottage in Cookridge. I'm no good at bringing up Leodis images - it's on there.See next post....

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 15 Jun, 2013 2:09 pm

simong wrote: tilly wrote: Hi Parksider Just took this what do you think? Radcliffe Lane Pudsey. There are a few similar houses in some of the roads off New Street in Farsley, which is an assortment of through terraces, back to backs and cottages in small squares which was presumably built for one of the mills. It's an area that's not very well documented on Leodis as we found with the Westroyd Park bench mark. As above if you can find the oldest "social housing" properties you'll find the smallest, however they only seem to exist as stone built ones. More robust than early brick they stand the test of time and now I have to poke round the "stone built" side of Leeds to find them!!Into the Pennines and Bradford and Calderdale especially where the steep hills throw up some real oddities are interesting but there's nowt like LeedsToday walking the dog in Headingley I noted some of the houses in the Ash area. Of course all the old brick built courts were knocked down, and many back to backs went. Whilst not the "smallest" I note the odd "terrace" row in the ashes are incredibly narrow with one door and a window at the front.It's almost as if to avoid the ban on back to backs the builders just tried to get two through terraces into the footprint whre a pair of houses back to back may have gone!!Poking about Headingley has a few old stone cottages hidden away....

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 06 Jul, 2013 11:57 pm

Switching to oddities now and a walk around Belle Vue Road and Westfield road brought back memories (other peoples) of the Rosebanks.Worth a look on leodis where there's a five storey terrace in Rosebank view pictured.First three stories are 17-25 Rosebank View with the top two stories being Rosebank Road fronting onto the road above the steep bank.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sun 07 Jul, 2013 1:48 pm

The Parksider wrote: Switching to oddities now and a walk around Belle Vue Road and Westfield road brought back memories (other peoples) of the Rosebanks.Worth a look on leodis where there's a five storey terrace in Rosebank view pictured.First three stories are 17-25 Rosebank View with the top two stories being Rosebank Road fronting onto the road above the steep bank. They sound like the weavers' cottages in places like Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. About ten years ago when I was looking to buy a house I briefly had a look around there and there are houses in the cliffside that have two or three stories facing the road on one side and another two underneath facing the road below which are sometimes a separate house or have been knocked together in the past. Some of the local estate agents advise against them saying that they were badly built, but as they were built in the 1890s and are still standing they can't be that bad.