1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD, 3, 4 AND 5, BRIGGATE
1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255854
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD, 3, 4 AND 5, BRIGGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255854
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD, 3, 4 AND 5, BRIGGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 3, 4 AND 5, BRIGGATE
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:
- 1 AND 2, BLAYDS YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 3, 4 AND 5, BRIGGATE
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 30232 33246
Details
LEEDS
SE3033SW BRIGGATE
714-1/78/58 (West side)
05/08/76 Nos.3, 4 AND 5
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIGGATE
(West side)
No.3)
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIGGATE
(West side)
No.4)
GV II
Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 BLAYD'S YARD.
House, now shops and store-rooms. Early C18, altered C19 and
C20. Rendered brick, grey slate roof, quoins.
3 storeys, 7 first-floor windows, the central 3 in a slightly
projecting bay. Narrow sashes to first floor, flush wood
frames, projecting moulded stone sills, keystones, the 2 to
right altered; top storey windows shorter and retaining 3
glazing-bar sashes to centre with modillion eaves cornice
above, altered to blocking course to left and right. Ground
floor: 3 C19-C20 shop facades with passage to rear (Blayd's
Yard) to left of centre; keyed round arch, moulded imposts.
Rear: the outer 2-window bays project as short wings linked to
houses in Blayd's Yard, the left wing incorporating Nos 1 & 2
Blayd's Yard, the right being a 1-window rendered bay.
Segmental-headed windows with 4-pane sashes, canted bay to
ground floor; remains of original wooden coved and beaded
cornice moulding to eaves.
INTERIOR: left, No.3, not seen; No.4, centre has mid C19
turned balusters to stairs and a corner fireplace inserted on
the 2nd floor; No.5 has exposed ceiling beams with
quarter-round mouldings to first floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was occupied by T Horncastle,
apothecary, in 1740 and the central unit, No.4, remained a
chemists and druggists until c1845. The outer bays of the
house appear to have been separately let from about 1800, No.3
occupied at first by a hatter and furrier, a draper in 1849, a
stationer by 1870 and a motorcycle dealer by 1914. No.5 was
used by a grocer and tea dealer by 1817, a trade often
developing from that of chemist; in 1839 T Howan lived in the
rear wing, No.2 Blayd's Yard. No.4 was used by a hatter,
draper, watchmaker and pawnbroker between 1849 and 1914.
The addition of render and alterations to the front eaves
support the documentary evidence that the large house which
probably provided the living, working and storage
accommodation for the apothecary through the C18 was divided
during the early C19 into shops and storage with more limited
living space, the owners or tenants possibly living elsewhere.
Although the records do not link the house with a merchant
involved in the textile trade it is very likely that as a
chemist the owner was involved in the processing side of
textiles, possibly dyeing. No.5 was damaged by fire mid C20
but the surviving ceiling beams indicate survival of the C18
fabric.
(Lingard S, University of Leeds: Index to buildings in
Briggate (unpublished thesis)).
Listing NGR: SE3023233246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465570
- 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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