Queens House and Attached Railings
QUEENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 34, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255732
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Queens House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- QUEENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 34, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255732
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Queens House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 34, WELLINGTON STREET
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:
- QUEENS HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 34, WELLINGTON STREET
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 29788 33424
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET 714-1/77/428 (North side) 22/03/74 No.34 Queen's House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WELLINGTON STREET (North side) Basement area railings of No.34 (Queen's House))
II
Offices. c1870, railings c1900, altered C20. Rendered, roof not visible, wrought-iron railings. 4 storeys over basement, 3 bays with 1, 2, 1 first-floor windows. Round-arched openings throughout. Rusticated ground floor with central double doors in projecting arched entrance with impost band, cornice and shallow pediment; flanking windows. Upper floors: plain surrounds to windows with late C20 glazing; carved rosettes between 1st-floor windows; moulded sill bands clasp rainwater pipes at outer ends; moulded frieze at eaves with lion masks and kneelers; parapet rebuilt. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement railings: Art Nouveau design of a scrolled seaweed motif instead of rails supporting moulded handrail across basement front and flanking steps. In 1870 the premises of B Berry, woollen merchant; the 1886 Insurance map shows B Berry, wholesale drapery warehouse. (Directory of Leeds: 1870-; Insurance map of Leeds: 1886-).
Listing NGR: SE2978833424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465721
- 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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