SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, WOODHOUSE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255654
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, WOODHOUSE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255654
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Statutory Address 1:: SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, WOODHOUSE LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SCHOOL OF MINERAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, WOODHOUSE LANE

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 29470 34845

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NW WOODHOUSE LANE 714-1/71/442 (West side) 19/01/88 School of Mineral Engineering, University of Leeds

II

University building. Early 1930s. By Lanchester and Lodge. For the University of Leeds. Portland stone with brick to rear; roof not visible. 2 storeys with attic. Symmetrical 2:1:7:1:2 bays breaking forward successively. Plinth: 1st-floor cornice with animal heads and blocking course; plainer 2nd-floor cornice with parapet. Central 7 bays have giant pilasters with acanthus capitals flanking windows with geometrical tracery and decorative panels between those on each floor. Other windows are metal-framed with margin glazing bars and transoms to all but the shorter attic windows. Bays flanking 7-bay break each have opening with moulded architrave on ground floor (panelled double door with traceried overlight to left, window to right), and 1st-floor window with head keystone and corbelled balcony with decorative iron balustrade. Winged head above central, attic window. Right return: 5 bays, 3 central bays breaking forward on ground and 1st floors and having central, pedimented, ground-floor window. INTERIOR: not inspected. Lanchester and Lodge were also responsible for the Parkinson Building (qv).

Listing NGR: SE2947034845

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.