Mordis House and Attached Railings
MORDIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, YORK PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255617
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Mordis House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MORDIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, YORK PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255617
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Mordis House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORDIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, 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:
- MORDIS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, 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 29468 33529
Details
LEEDS
SE2933 YORK PLACE 714-1/35/460 (South side) 05/08/76 No.26 Mordis House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (East side) Nos.2 AND 4) (Formerly Listed as: YORK PLACE (South side) Nos.26 AND 27)
GV II
House, formerly meeting house and warehouse, now offices, with basement railings. Early C19, altered c1900. Red brick, Flemish bond, slate roof, stone details, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 2 bays. Steps up to door with fanlight in round arch left, boarded bow window right. Sashes with glazing bars to 1st floor, continuous stone sill, flat brick arches. 9-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Multi-flue chimney straddles ridge, right. Railings: plain bars, bulbous finials, some missing. INTERIOR: not inspected. Map evidence suggests that the row was built 1834-1850; in 1870 No.26 was the York Place Room of the Plymouth Brethren, by 1886 it was a woollen warehouse. (Rapkin, J: Map of Leeds: 1850-; Directory of Leeds, 1870; Insurance Map of Leeds: 1886-).
Listing NGR: SE2946833529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465839
- 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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