Armley Prison: Entrance Range and Flanking Walls
ARMLEY PRISON: ENTRANCE RANGE AND FLANKING WALLS, GLOUCESTER TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256248
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Armley Prison: Entrance Range and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ARMLEY PRISON: ENTRANCE RANGE AND FLANKING WALLS, GLOUCESTER TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256248
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Armley Prison: Entrance Range and Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARMLEY PRISON: ENTRANCE RANGE AND FLANKING WALLS, GLOUCESTER TERRACE
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:
- ARMLEY PRISON: ENTRANCE RANGE AND FLANKING WALLS, GLOUCESTER TERRACE
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 28055 33360
Details
LEEDS
SE2833 GLOUCESTER TERRACE, Armley 714-1/34/486 (West side) 05/08/76 Armley Prison: entrance range and flanking walls
GV II*
Entrance range and flanking walls to prison. 1847, altered C20. By William Belton Perkin and Elisha Backhouse. Ashlar, edge-tooled on quoins, brick internal skin, rubble infill, slate roofs. Castle style, 2- and 3-storey entrance block with large moulded round-arch doorway, flanking projecting splayed and battered 2-storey towers with corbelled embattled parapets; to each side low embattled link wall to 3-storeyed square towers and flanking taller octagonal towers all crenellated and with iron bars to round-arched windows, this part fronted by cast-iron railings in the form of spears and halberds; flanking perimeter wall approx 6m high and 200m long overall, parapet rises over arrow-loops above plain ramped buttresses, and circular corner turrets with blocked round-headed openings; walling to S of entrance block rebuilt and clad in tooled stone, to N of entrance block the wall raised when visitor block built outside in the 1950s; the enclosure was enlarged c1857 and the perimeter wall rebuilt further north. The archway roof is rib-vaulted and flanking doorways have deep chamfers. Above the archway, facing the yard, inscription: 'PERKIN AND BACKHOUSE ARCHITECTS AD 1847'. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: see Armley Prison: Inner range (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2805533360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465097
- 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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