THORNTONS BUILDINGS

THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255861
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255861
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE
Statutory Address 2:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 55-69, THE HEADROW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE
Statutory Address:: THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 55-69, 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 30205 33737

Details

LEEDS

SE3033NW THE HEADROW 714-1/76/391 (South side) Nos.55-69 (Odd) Thornton's Buildings

GV II

Includes: No.44 Thornton's Buildings LANDS LANE. Shops and offices. 1873, altered C20. Possibly by George Smith for Charles Thornton. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, corner site with 9 bays to The Headrow and 4 to Lands Lane; 1 angled bay and a 2-window bay on left return, (City Varieties entrance). The windows grouped 2,1,3,2,2,2,3,1,2 to The Headrow, 3 to rounded corner and 2,2,1,2, to Lands Lane; round-arched to 1st floor, segmental to 2nd, attached columns, impost bands, keyed architraves, pilasters at bay divisions, deep eaves with raised brick panels, moulded strings, bracketed cornice, blocking course raised to balustrade over central 3 bays on The Headrow and over the rounded corner to Lands Lane, each having a segmental carved panel with scrolls and flowers and the words: 'ANNO DOMINI 1873' to The Headrow and 'THORNTON'S BUILDINGS to the Land's Lane corner. Ground floor: an original entrance, bay 2, has a stone surround with brackets and cornice; the original glazed overlight has 'THORNTON'S CHAMBERS' painted in gold; windows and shop entrances renewed but follow original bay divisions. INTERIOR: not inspected. Charles Thornton played a crucial part in the development of Leeds as a shopping centre, developing this corner and Thornton's Arcade (qv). (Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial record: Leeds: 1990-: 40).

Listing NGR: SE3021233736

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Legacy System number:: 465581
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Heap, A, The Headrow a Pictorial history, (1990), 40

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.