Acorn Glass Merchants Premises
ACORN GLASS MERCHANTS PREMISES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255584
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Acorn Glass Merchants Premises
- Statutory Address:
- ACORN GLASS MERCHANTS PREMISES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255584
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Acorn Glass Merchants Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- ACORN GLASS MERCHANTS PREMISES, CHURCH LANE
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:
- ACORN GLASS MERCHANTS PREMISES, CHURCH LANE
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:
- SE2847937222
Details
LEEDS
SE23NE CHURCH LANE, Meanwood
714-1/6/955 (West side)
Acorn Glass Merchants' premises
II
Formerly known as: Woodside Wesleyan Chapel CHURCH LANE
Meanwood.
Wesleyan chapel, now warehouse and offices. Dated 1811,
additions 1883, altered C20. Built by Samuel Prince, class
leader and stone mason. Coursed squared gritstone, roof
replaced in concrete tiles.
Single storey, 5 windows. Plinth. Central board door to chapel
entrance, round-arched window with date plaque, 'AD 1811'
above, in plain stone surround with impost blocks. Flanking
windows similar, 5 x 4-pane sashes with glazing bars. Entrance
left, between windows 1 and 2, in plain stone surround.
Rear: a lean-to range, original windows. Left return: added
bay not of special interest. Right return, to road: narrow
window to ground floor, possibly an entrance originally;
lunette window to gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The building was sold to George Barber in 1883 who added the
mock timber-framed end bay and converted the chapel to a
laundry which closed c1973.
(Hopwood, W A & Casperson, F P: Meanwood, Village, Valley,
Industry and People: 1986-: 33; Hopwood, A & Rose, S:
Sesquicentenary Story: 150 years of Meanwood Methodism: 1961-:
13).
Listing NGR: SE2847937222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hopwood, A, Rose, S, Sesquicentenary Story 150 years of Meanwood Methodism, (1961), 13
Hopwood, A W, Casperson, F P, Meanwood Village Valley Industry and People, (1986), 33
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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