Top of the Town Cottages
TOP OF THE TOWN COTTAGES, 220-228, TOWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255814
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Top of the Town Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- TOP OF THE TOWN COTTAGES, 220-228, TOWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255814
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Top of the Town Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP OF THE TOWN COTTAGES, 220-228, TOWN 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:
- TOP OF THE TOWN COTTAGES, 220-228, TOWN 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 29780 28336
Details
LEEDS
SE22NE TOWN STREET, Middleton 714-1/13/985 (North side) 05/08/76 Nos.220-228 (Even) Top-of-the-Town Cottages (Formerly Listed as: TOWN STREET, Middleton Nos.220-228 (Even))
II
Row of cottages. Mid C18 with C19 additions and alterations. Red brick, stone slate roofs to Nos 222-228; slate roof to No.220. 2 storeys, 7 first-floor windows, rear outshut. Quoins left. Plain doors, segmental arches to ground floor, 4-pane sashes. The left 3-window range has the appearance of a mid C18 house with end stacks, now 2 cottages, additional bays to east, each with a stack right. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.228 is reputed to have been used as a Methodist meeting house until c1860. No.218 is the office of the Leeds City Council Countryside Ranger Service. (Leeds City Council Countryside Ranger Service: Middleton Park History Trail: 7).
Listing NGR: SE2978028336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465619
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leeds City Council Countryside Ranger Service in Middleton Park History Trail, (), 7
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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