Old Poor House
OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250731
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Poor House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250731
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Poor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POOR HOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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