ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING

ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256272
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING
Statutory Address:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256272
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL NORTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET

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 31800 34758

Details

LEEDS

SE33SW BECKETT STREET, Sheepscar 714-1/11/1103 (West side) 22/11/74 St James' Hospital: Northside Building

GV II

Workhouse, later hospital and medical museum. Dated 1858.By Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Conversion to Thackray Medical Museum, 1995. Red brick with white brick banding, stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, 15 unequal bays, central and flanking bays project, the centre with two 3-storey canted bays and large round-arched window between with entrance below. Doorways with semicircular overlights to bays 2, 6, 8 (centre), 10 and 14 (blocked). Rusticated pilasters. Ornate pierced stone parapet rising to widely spaced Dutch gables with finials. Modillion cornice. Large square central tower with date: 'A.D./ MDCCCLVIII', rusticated pilasters to corner turrets with ogee-shaped roofs each with large wind vane. INTERIOR: not inspected. The Leeds New Workhouse was built to accomodate 800 persons, at a cost of »32,000. The foundation stone was laid in 1858 and the building opened 28/03/1861. Later part of the Leeds Township Infirmary, funded by the Poor Law Guardians and built in 1874. Now the Ashley Wing, Elderly Services Department of St James' University Hospital. (RCHME: Report: St James's University Hospital: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SE3180034758

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Legacy System number:: 465075
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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St James's University Hospital Report, (1995)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.