The Star
The Star, 205, Tong Road, Leeds, LS12 4NA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255843
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Star
- Statutory Address:
- The Star, 205, Tong Road, Leeds, LS12 4NA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255843
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Star
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Star, 205, Tong Road, Leeds, LS12 4NA
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:
- The Star, 205, Tong Road, Leeds, LS12 4NA
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:
- SE2682033071
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE2633
714-1/32/1209
LEEDS
Upper Wortley
TONG ROAD (South side)
No 205 (The Star)
(Formerly listed as No.199 The Star Public House)
II
Public house. Early C19, altered C20. Painted brick, tile roof. Two storeys, three bays to wide gabled frontage. Central board door with overlight, architrave with cornice. Flanking large windows in pilastered surrounds with cornice above, two four-pane sashes with stone sills and wedge lintels to first floor, band and coping forming pediment with oval window in stone surround, glazing bars painted. Brick ridge stack. Blocked doorway on right return, blind window above, wedge lintels to windows as front.
INTERIOR: panelled double outer doors, modern inner doors in narrow passage; public bar left retains wall benches, boarded walls and bar front, blocked fireplace. The entrance passage opens into replanned former hatch area (now bar end) with black, brown and white tiled floor (c1870) and two rooms now open-plan. Wall benches in the rear room which also retains cast-iron fireplace with raised decoration and basket grate. Straight flight stone steps to cellar which is brick-lined and vaulted, with barrel shute, wooden barrel stands and bottle shelves.
Rare survival of a roadside inn at an important road junction; Tong Road an important routeway between Leeds and Pudsey/Bradford.
Listing NGR: SE2682033071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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