1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256159
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256159
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
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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.
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:
- 1-5, QUEEN'S COURT
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:
- SE3027033303
Details
SE3033SW
714-1/78/352
LEEDS
QUEEN'S COURT
(North side)
Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)
GV
II
Houses, workshops and shops. Mid C18 with later additions;
restoration 1989. Dark red brick, Flemish and random bond,
slate roofs. Rear wing of Nos 165A-169 Briggate (qv) with
houses and workshops forming north and east ranges of Queen's
Court, now shops.
North range composed of 3 builds, from west: i) 3-storey,
7-window rear wing with remains of stone foundation course,
C20 shop facade left, wide doorway with flanking windows to
right, flat and cambered heads to openings, C20 frames; ii)
2-storey, 3-window block, inserted doorway centre, coving to
eaves, tall brick stack; iii) 2-storey, 4-window block, eaves
band, 2 tall stacks; right return is of irregular hand-made
brick in random bond with a blocked round window to gable and
blocked first-floor loading door.
East range closing the east end of the court is of 2 storeys,
the eaves lower than in the north range, original covered
access way to Call Lane, centre.
INTERIOR: ground floor examined during restoration: timber
cross beams reused in west end.
For history, see Nos 165A-169 Briggate (qv); probably part of
the premises of a wool stapler and hatter in the early C19 and
tea dealer in the mid-later C19.
Rare survival of the compact type of building in the city
centre which evolved during the later C18 and early C19.
(Thornborough, P (West Yorkshire Archaeology Service): Queen's
Court, Lower Briggate, Leeds: 1987-: 13).
Listing NGR: SE3027033303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465187
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thornborough, P, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service in Queens Court Lower Briggate Leeds, (1987), 13
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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