Thorntons Buildings
THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255861
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Thorntons Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255861
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Thorntons Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 44, LANDS LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THORNTONS BUILDINGS, 55-69, 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Heap, A, The Headrow a Pictorial history, (1990), 40
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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