Number 56 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 56, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255737
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Number 56 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 56, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255737
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Number 56 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 56, 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:
- NUMBER 56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 56, 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 29651 33446
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET 714-1/77/432 (North side) 05/08/76 No.56 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WELLINGTON STREET (North side) No.56)
GV II
Offices. Dated 1873, altered C20. Probably by Henry Walker for William Smith. Ashlar, slate roof, wrought-iron railings with gate. Gothic Revival style. 4 storeys over basement, 2 uneven bays. Panelled double doors to right in a moulded pointed arch under a gable with 2 small Gothic windows and quatrefoil opening, canted bay carried up to a turret with octagonal spire and gargoyles. Wider left bay has cross windows to ground floor, paired flat-arched windows to 1st and 2nd floors and 3 Gothic windows of 2 lights with plate tracery to 3rd floor; quatrefoil plaques and incised date in coped gable surmounted by a crocketed finial. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement railings: ashlar wall, square panels of ironwork with central boss and circles, standards with leaf finials. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-: 304).
Listing NGR: SE2965133446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 304
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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