FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY

FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375233
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375233
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH ROAD

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 29542 32387

Details

LEEDS

SE2932 NINEVEH ROAD, Holbeck 714-1/42/850 (North side) Former Holbeck Public Library

II

Formerly known as: Cambrian Public House NINEVEH ROAD Holbeck. Public library, later health centre and public house. 1901. By William Bakewell. Red brick faced in salt-glazed Burmantofts terracotta, grey slate roof. A corner site on sloping ground, 2 storeys over basement, central tower with octagonal hipped roof. Complicated fenestration includes mullion windows to Nineveh Road frontage flanked by wings with transoms, round-arched windows flanking entrance porch with segmental pediment on consoles, a large 4-light canted bay on corner flanked by turret-like bays, all with small-pane frames. Banded and moulded wall decoration includes Leeds coat of arms over entrance, Art Nouveau plaques and scrolls, balustraded parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected. William Bakewell designed several important buildings in Leeds, including the 1899 extensions to the Tower Works, Globe Road (qv). The Cambrian public house closed 1990.

Listing NGR: SE2954232387

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Legacy System number:: 466115
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.