105, WATER LANE

105, WATER LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1255782
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
Statutory Address:
105, WATER LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1255782
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
Statutory Address 1:
105, WATER LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
105, WATER LANE

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 29586 32910

Details

LEEDS

SE2932NE WATER LANE, Holbeck 714-1/80/859 (South side) No.105

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Office. Dated 1870, altered C20. for Smith, Beacock and Tannett, Machine Tool Manufacturers. White-painted brick, slate roof; deep bracketed eaves, hipped roof on corner, short brick stack to right. Single storey, 4 round-headed windows to Water Lane, 1 to Foundry Street. In Italianate style. Ornate datestone with initials SBT and date above corner entrance with panelled 2-leaf door in moulded brick surround carried around the building as window arches on projecting impost band. INTERIOR: not inspected. On the site of a house at the entrance to Matthew Murray's Round Foundry works (qv), his business having closed in 1843. Later the works was renamed the Victoria Foundry and gained a reputation for training draughtsmen and engineers. Among the 'scores' being trained in the later C19 were members of the Krupp family of German industrialists and armaments manufacturers. (Kilburn Scott E: Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds: 1928-: 82).



Listing NGR: SE2958632910

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Scott, K, Matthew Murray Pioneer Engineer, (), 82

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