The Golden Beam, with boundary walls

The Golden Beam, with boundary walls, Headingley Lane, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1BL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255938
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls
Statutory Address:
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls, Headingley Lane, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1BL
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255938
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls
Statutory Address 1:
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls, Headingley Lane, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1BL

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls, Headingley Lane, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 1BL

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:
SE2834635711

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 July 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE2835NW
714-1/64/779

LEEDS
Headingley
HEADINGLEY LANE (South West side)
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls

(Formerly listed as Eleanor Lupton Centre (Leeds Girls' High School), with boundary walls, previously listed as: HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (South West side) First Church of Christ the Scientist (including stone wall at front))

05/08/76

GV
II

Church, was part of high school, now pub, with boundary walls and gateways on north and west sides. 1912, by William Peel Schofield, with extension 1932, same architect. Portland stone. Egyptian/Classical style, wrought-iron gates. Two storeys, five-bay original block, wide two-window addition set back slightly on right with facade to Richmond Road.

Original block: central three bays project slightly with four giant pilasters with Egyptian-style capitals; large central doorway in moulded architrave with cornice and large stone urn above; moulded stone architraves and metal frames to windows. Wide cornice with blocking course and low pediment. Added block right has a tall full-height panel with disc motif in central blind window, blocking course and pediment on four brackets.

Right return: nine bays, one and nine blank, entrance bays two and eight with architraves and deep cornice with urns, pilasters as front, tall ground-floor windows, those to upper floor square with circular metal frames; cornice and blocking course with pediments above entrances.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Boundary wall: two and three courses of dressed gritstone, the copings and piers of Portland stone. Piers approximately 1.5m high, curved walling with four piers to main entrance, walling approx 30m long with taller piers to Richmond Road: incised Greek key pattern, banded capstones with disc motif to front; one single pier and three pairs of gate piers with gates on right return (two pedestrian and one wider car park entrance). Gates with square panels and scrolled top rails.

Listing NGR: SE2834635711

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
465421
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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