Old Poor House

OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1250731
Date first listed:
17-Jun-1986
Statutory Address:
OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1250731
Date first listed:
17-Jun-1986
Statutory Address 1:
OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Morley
National Grid Reference:
SE 27187 29496

Details

SE22NE LS27 VICTORIA STREET SE2729 MORLEY (east side), Churwell

2/64 Old Poor House

- II

Poor House, now village meeting centre. Dated 1865. Rock-faced stone basement; 1st floor of red brick in stretcher bond with ashlar band and quoins and white brick sill and impost bands. Tile roof. 2 storeys. 3-bay gabled front. Central doorway with interrupted jambs and overlight flanked by windows with plain stone surrounds and lintel band. 1st floor has stone ogee-arched windows with impost blocks and keystones flanking oval date plaque inscribed:-

"TOWNSHIP OF CHURWELL THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED BY THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AD 1865 "

Pedimented gable in which is set circular recess. Right-hand return fronts Elland Road and has bus-shelter cut into stone basement. 4 bays of windows as front. Dogtooth and dentil cornice to eaves. Lateral stack set between 1st and 2nd bay.

Listing NGR: SE2718729496

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433184
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