The Three Legs Public House

THE THREE LEGS PUBLIC HOUSE, 9, THE HEADROW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255902
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
The Three Legs Public House
Statutory Address:
THE THREE LEGS PUBLIC HOUSE, 9, THE HEADROW
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255902
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
The Three Legs Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE THREE LEGS PUBLIC HOUSE, 9, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE THREE LEGS PUBLIC HOUSE, 9, 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 30362 33704

Details

LEEDS

SE3033NW THE HEADROW 714-1/76/387 (South side) No.9 The Three Legs Public House

II

Public house. Mid C19, altered early C20. Brick faced with glazed faience and terracotta, slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows, the central window an oriel. Central arched entrance flanked by wide windows, paired windows above, all with keystones. Rectangular 2nd-floor windows divided by stepped pilasters; modillion eaves cornice, strapwork parapet with slender urns, end stacks flanked by screen walls to conceal shallow pitch of roof. The faience decoration extends across the ground floor and the oriel which has a plaque with the Three Legs symbol flanked by leaves and scrolls below and a balustrade above. INTERIOR: replanned and refitted late C20. The property was part of the Harrison estate by 1638 and in 1897 was sold to the Leeds Estate Company. In 1898 SW Wood, the owner of The Scarborough, Bishopgate Street (qv) bought the public house and sold it in 1902 to Joshua Tetley and Sons, the building then including a shop. The alterations and refronting date from that time.



Listing NGR: SE3036133698

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465468
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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