No. 43 Woodhouse Lane
43, Woodhouse Lane, Woodhouse, Leeds
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255652
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- No. 43 Woodhouse Lane
- Statutory Address:
- 43, Woodhouse Lane, Woodhouse, Leeds
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255652
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- No. 43 Woodhouse Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- 43, Woodhouse Lane, Woodhouse, Leeds
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:
- 43, Woodhouse Lane, Woodhouse, Leeds
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 30015 34030
Details
SE3034
714-1/29/441
05/08/76
LEEDS
WOODHOUSE LANE (South West side)
No. 43
(Formerly listed as Leeds Metropolitan University, previously listed as: Leeds Polytechnic (Accounting and Applied Economics Building))
GV
II
Methodist New Connexion chapel, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University. 1857-58, altered mid C20. By William Hill. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Two storeys over basement, five x seven bays. Classical style. Corinthian pilastered doorways with heavy entablatures and semicircular fanlights (that to right blocked) flank three round-headed windows.
First floor: original central window is round-headed, with carved impost blocks and keystone; flanking tall metal-framed windows. Rusticated pilasters to corners, bracketed cornice, full-width pediment with round light and relief foliage in tympanum, stepped stone ?chimneys at each end of roof apex. Left return: original and altered fenestration as front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The chapel cost £6,000 to build and contained an organ and memorial window to Mr Alderman Marsden; school rooms and an institute were in the basement.
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1913-: XXVIII).
Listing NGR: SE3001534030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465781
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory of Leeds, (1913), XXVIII
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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