Concourse of London Midland and Scottish Railway
CONCOURSE OF LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY, CITY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255570
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Concourse of London Midland and Scottish Railway
- Statutory Address:
- CONCOURSE OF LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY, CITY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255570
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Concourse of London Midland and Scottish Railway
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONCOURSE OF LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY, CITY SQUARE
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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:
- CONCOURSE OF LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY, CITY SQUARE
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 29881 33328
Details
SE 2933 SE CITY SQUARE
(South side (off))
714-1/77/99
Concourse of London, Midland
And Scottish Railway
11.09.1996
II
Station concourse and ticket office, over brick vaults. 1846, c.1931, altered c.1970. By W Curtis Green and WH Hamlyn, architect to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Portland ashlar, brown brick. Single-storey, flat roof, 7+ bays, with N entrance arcade through British Rail offices, from Queen's Hotel (qv), and E entrance, now left-luggage mall and information centre, canopy over. Facade: southwest entrance to former platforms obscured by hoardings and shed roofs; 3 large 3-panel windows with small panes above. The bays defined externally by buttresses rising to stone or concrete band and parapet. INTERIOR: buttresses rise to concrete cross beams with original pendant lights. Walls lined with bronze panels, the hotel entrance having flanking panels with cut-out lettering. Deep plain projecting band above door height and plain hoarding panels between the buttresses; coved cornice to coffered ceiling. The present ticket hall of the City Station added c.1970 is built within the concourse and the original coffered ceiling continues above it. This concourse is built on a series of brick vaults which pre-existed from the Midland Railway's Wellington Street Station built in 1846. These vaults include the culvert for the Mill Goyt which flows under the Queen's Hotel and joins the River Aire to the west of the site. The vaults are part of a much more extensive series of vaults which stretch under all the listed buildings in the group as well as the approaches to and under the present Leeds Station. The present station uses the approaches and footprint of both the Midland Railway's Wellington Street Station, of which the surface buildings have now all been demolished, and the London and North Western Railway's New Station of 1869. This was demolished in 1963 and rebuilt as the present Leeds Station, leaving only the vaults and the London and Scottish Railway buildings now surviving from an earlier period. Part of the important LMS group of hotel, Railway Company offices (qv) and concourse. HISTORY: see Queen's Hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2988133328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465883
- 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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