ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE

ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE, GLOUCESTER TERRACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1256250
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE
Statutory Address:: ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE, GLOUCESTER TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1256250
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE
Statutory Address 1:: ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE, GLOUCESTER TERRACE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ARMLEY PRISON: REVETMENT WALL ON EAST SIDE OF GLOUCESTER TERRACE, 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 28062 33382

Details

LEEDS

SE2833 GLOUCESTER TERRACE, Armley 714-1/34/488 (East side) 05/10/94 Armley Prison: revetment wall on east side of Gloucester Terrace

GV II*

Revetment wall. c1847. By William Perkin and Elisha Backhouse. Coursed rock-faced gritstone, ashlar coping. Overall length approx 150m, present height 3-4m but originally higher as road level has been raised. Octagonal bollards with large moulded flat capstones, crenellated parapet, sloping buttresses, blocked chamfered archway to right of centre. Shown on a drawing in the margin of Rapkin's Map of Leeds, 1850. HISTORY: see Armley Prison: Inner range.

Listing NGR: SE2806233382

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 465099
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.