Numbers 2 and 4 and Attached Railings
72, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255849
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 4 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 72, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255849
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 4 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72, WELLINGTON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2 AND 4, BRITANNIA 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:
- 72, WELLINGTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2 AND 4, BRITANNIA 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 29578 33464
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE BRITANNIA STREET
714-1/77/70 (East side)
19/12/91 Nos.2 AND 4
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WELLINGTON STREET
(North side)
No.72)
GV II
Includes: No.72 WELLINGTON STREET.
Woollen warehouse with basement railings. Mid C19. Red/brown
brick, top storey rebuilt in brighter red brick, stone
dressings, slate roof, wrought-iron railings. U-plan of 4
storeys over basement, 9 first-floor windows in 3 bays, the
narrower outer bays break forward slightly and are
gabled.4-pane sashes throughout.
Ground floor: central goods entrance with stone surround of
pilasters, entablature and shallow pediment; wide brick
segmental-arched entrance at centre of right bay has 4 stone
steps with nosed treads, a 4-pane overlight and flanking
windows; wide segmental-arched window flanked by sashes far
left; sashes flank the central entrance. Upper floors: sashes
in brick arches throughout, a round-arched window at the
centre of the outer bays, top floor, in a full-height shallow
round-arched recess; above the central entrance the windows
are in a full-height recess. Stone bands at floor and sill
levels, eaves and gable coping, central panel above eaves
flanked by blocks.
Right return: 6 evenly-spaced windows, all flat-arched; large
stone porch far right with panelled door in pilastered
surround with entablature and cornice; stone floor and sill
bands; stone and wrought-iron brackets above 2nd-floor
windows, possibly sign-board supports.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement railings: moulded standards with
vase finials, plain rails with spearhead finials.
(Insurance plan of Leeds, sheet 7: 1886-).
Listing NGR: SE2957833464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465611
- 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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