Numbers 11, 12 and 13 and Attached Railings
8, BRITANNIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255613
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 11, 12 and 13 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 8, BRITANNIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255613
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 11, 12 and 13 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, BRITANNIA STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 11, 12 AND 13 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 11, 12 AND 13, YORK PLACE
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:
- 8, BRITANNIA STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 11, 12 AND 13 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 11, 12 AND 13, YORK PLACE
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 29586 33498
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE YORK PLACE
714-1/77/457 (South side)
Nos.11, 12 AND 13
and attached railings
GV II
Includes: No.8 BRITANNIA STREET.
Houses, later woollen warehouses, now offices, with basement
railings. Early C19, altered C20. Red brick, Flemish bond,
stone details, wrought-iron basement railings, slate roof. 3
storeys over basement, two 3-bay houses and a narrow 2-bay
house linked through to 3-bay right return (No.8 Britannia
Street).
No.11, left: steps up to panelled door with overlight in stone
architrave with deep scrolled brackets, entablature and
cornice. Sashes with glazing bars, 9-pane to top floor, stone
sills, segmental brick arches; 1st-floor sill band. No.12 a
mirrored pair, massive 14-flue ridge stack with clay pots on
ridge between the 2 houses. No.13: facade set back slightly, a
plain segmental-arched doorway with overlight left, sash
window right; inserted 4-pane sash to 1st-floor left. Right
return: central doorway as Nos 11 & 12, restored sash windows;
4-pane window to 1st floor left of each bay, hipped roof with
rebuilt stack. Plain railings with pointed finials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: map evidence suggests that Nos 11 & 12 are
probably part of the row built c1831-34, with No.13/No.8
Britannia Street added when Britannia Street was built, by
1850. The 1870 Directory indicates that these houses were then
occupied by a woad grower, a gentleman and an oyster merchant;
by 1886 they were all woollen warehouses.
(Maps of Leeds, 1831, 1834, 1850, 1886; Directory of Leeds
1870).
Listing NGR: SE2958633498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465835
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Directory of Leeds, (1870)
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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