50 AND 51, BRIGGATE
50 AND 51, BRIGGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255856
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 50 AND 51, BRIGGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 50 AND 51, BRIGGATE
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- Date:
- 2003-05-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/09461/11
- Rights:
- © Mr Hans Van Lemmen. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255856
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 50 AND 51, BRIGGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 50 AND 51, 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:
- 50 AND 51, 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 30225 33516
Details
LEEDS
SE3033NW BRIGGATE 714-1/76/60 (West side) 21/07/94 Nos.50 AND 51
GV II
Premises of Thornton and Co, India Rubber Manufacturers. c1918, altered C20. By SD Kitson. Reinforced concrete and steel frame faced in matt-glazed faience ('Burmantofts Marmo') by the Leeds Fireclay Co., roof not visible. 3 storeys, 2 bays, Classical style. Late C20 ground-floor shop windows. The 2 bays have identical facades of recessed 2-tier windows behind fluted columns in antis with rosette and egg-and-dart motifs to capitals, entablature with triglyphs, deep modillion eaves cornice and pierced blocking course with centre plaque flanked by lion heads. Raised lettering on the plaques: THORNTON/AND CO. LTD; and on the entablature, left: INDIA RUBBER MANUFACTURERS, right, (cut back): THORNTON & CO. LIMITED. INTERIOR: not inspected. This is one of the '3 notable buildings with their Burmantofts Marmo facades intact in Leeds', (van Lemmen 1984). 'Marmo' was an imitation marble made by the Leeds Fireclay Company after 1889. Other buildings in the city include Atlas Chambers, King Street and The Scottish Union and National Insurance Co., Park Row (qv). An undated photograph in the Kirkstall Museum archive shows that the left facade only was built originally. (Journal of the Victorian Society, West Yorkshire: van Lemman, H: Burmantofts Marmo: 1983-1984: 22).
Listing NGR: SE3022533516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465574
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Van Lemman, H, Journal of the Victorian Society West Yorkshire in Burmantofts Marmo, (1983-1984), 22
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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