Permanent House and Headrow Buildings
PERMANENT HOUSE AND HEADROW BUILDINGS, 44-72, THE HEADROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255859
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Permanent House and Headrow Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- PERMANENT HOUSE AND HEADROW BUILDINGS, 44-72, THE HEADROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255859
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Permanent House and Headrow Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERMANENT HOUSE AND HEADROW BUILDINGS, 44-72, THE HEADROW
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:
- PERMANENT HOUSE AND HEADROW BUILDINGS, 44-72, THE HEADROW
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 30020 33807
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE THE HEADROW 714-1/75/389 (North side) 11/04/95 Nos.44-72 (Even) Permanent House and Headrow Buildings
GV II
Shop and office building. 1930-31 and 1955. Overall design by Sir Reginald Blomfield and GW Atkinson. Portland stone and red brick, slate roof. Classical style. 4 storeys, stepped 4-part 27-window facade to The Headrow, left 9-window return of 1930 and a further 11-window addition of 1955 to Cookridge Street and right 4-window return to Albion Street. Ashlar corner bays, rusticated ground floor, round keyed arches to slightly projecting entrance bays, tall shop windows to Nos 44-60, ground-floor windows to Nos 70 & 72 altered later C20. Rectangular windows with metal frames, ashlar architraves to first floor and entrance bays, segmental pediments, swags, panelled and balustraded parapet, urns. A tall carriage arch surmounted by columns in antis, entablature and parapet links the 2 parts of the building over Cross Fountaine Street. Rear, Nos 50-60: giant metal-framed windows with decorative panels to upper floors. INTERIOR: Headrow Buildings; fine original fittings include tiled walls to corridors, marble-lined stairs, with wrought-iron balustrade and brass handrails, service rooms, brass window catches, black and white stone floors. HISTORICAL NOTE: the building on the corner with Cookridge Street was opened on 15 May 1930 as the headquarters of the Leeds Permanent Building Society (founded 1848); the uphill range, with corner to Albion Street, was opened on 3 December 1931 by Mr Charles Lupton, chairman of the Leeds Corporation Improvements Committee; a plaque in the entrance records the event. The latter consisted of 9 shops and 89 offices used by the Leeds Electricity Department, Inland Revenue, and Cadbury's. A photograph taken in 1955 (Heap, p.17) shows the western half of the Cookridge Street range under construction. (Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial record: Leeds: 1990-: 17, 23).
Listing NGR: SE3002033807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465578
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Heap, A, The Headrow a Pictorial history, (1990), 17, 23
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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