Seacroft - Architecture

Architecture

Seacroft has a variety of styles of architecture. The area surrounding the green has many old buildings, dating back to the 18th century and before. The estate also shows a variety of different styles employed by Leeds City Council for the duration of the estates construction. The earlier houses dating back to the 1950s are red brick traditional terraces and semis. In the late 1960s and 1970s the prefabricated housing built towards the South West of the estate was constructed. The build quality of these houses was considerably poor and most are now uninhabited. The older council houses were generally built to a higher quality and are still in good condition. The brutalist Seacroft Civic Centre stood until its demolition in 1999, when it was replaced by the Seacroft Green Shopping Centre, which is of a fairly standard design for a large supermarket and purpose built shops. There are also many highrise blocks of flats around the estate, mainly near to the Shopping Centre, towards the bottom of South Parkway and Beechwood Avenue, around the Ramshead area and in the Bogart Hill area.

Religious buildings include the stone-built St James's Parish Church (C of E, 1845), a brick Wesleyan Chapel (1874) a brick Congregational Church (1951) and a brick Roman Catholic Church, Our Lady of Good Counsel (1954).

• Older housing, York Road, Seacroft Village

• 1950s Semi-detached Council Housing

• Later semi-detached houses

• Low-rise flats

• Shops on the South Parkway

• Methodist Church (Wesleyan Chapel) (1874)

• Seacroft Congregational Church (1951)

• Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church (1954)