Water Works Meter House
WATER WORKS METER HOUSE, CHURCH WOOD AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255566
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Water Works Meter House
- Statutory Address:
- WATER WORKS METER HOUSE, CHURCH WOOD AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255566
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Water Works Meter House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER WORKS METER HOUSE, CHURCH WOOD AVENUE
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:
- WATER WORKS METER HOUSE, CHURCH WOOD AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 27262 37149
Details
LEEDS
SE23NE CHURCH WOOD AVENUE, Far Headingley 714-1/6/651 (North West side) Water Works Meter House
II
Meter house. Built between 1905 and 1912. Rock-faced ashlar, grey slate roof. A tall single-storey building in Gothic Revival style set against the side of the filtration reservoir. Central porch with pointed arch and paired board doors, cornice and blocking course. Flanking arched 2-light windows with hoodmoulds; angle buttresses, moulded stone brackets support deep blocking course with arched recesses. Hipped roof with glazed ventilation canopy, iron finials. INTERIOR: not inspected. In 1905 seven filter beds in Weetwood treated the water from the Washburn valley reservoirs; by 1912 there were 17 beds in Headingley (Kelly), suggesting that this building dates from the period when the filter beds were extended across Otley Road. Water reached the town by gravitation or via North Lane Pumping Station, North Lane, Headingley (qv). (Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1905 and 1912).
Listing NGR: SE2726237149
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Leeds, (1905)
Kellys Director in Leeds, (1912)
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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