Moorlands House
MOORLANDS HOUSE, 48, ALBION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256606
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Moorlands House
- Statutory Address:
- MOORLANDS HOUSE, 48, ALBION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256606
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Moorlands House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORLANDS HOUSE, 48, ALBION STREET
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:
- MOORLANDS HOUSE, 48, ALBION 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 30071 33556
Details
LEEDS
SE3033NW ALBION STREET 714-1/76/12 (East side) 19/03/70 No.48 Moorlands House
GV II
Formerly known as: No.48 Premises of Leek and Westbourne Building Society ALBION STREET. Premises of the Leeds and West Yorkshire Assurance Company, now offices. 1852-55, altered C20. By WB Gingell, sculptor Robert Mawer. Richly modelled Venetian palazzo style. Ashlar, wrought-iron balconies, roof not visible. Square plan, on corner site with Commercial Street (right return). 2 storeys with attic and basement. 3 bays. Vermiculated rustication to ground floor with more heavily rusticated plinth, rusticated round-arch doorway with carved tympanum and flanking Venetian windows in round-arched recesses with continuous moulded impost and carved head keyblocks. Retractable metal shutters to ground-floor windows ran in tracks behind the piers to each window arch. Heavy dentilled cornice over ground floor with projecting balconies to 1st-floor windows. First floor: giant paired Corinthian three-quarter columns supporting heavy entablature with festoons and masks in the frieze, the entablature breaks forward over the columns. The 1st floor has 3 tall windows with segmental pediments on console brackets. 3 attic windows above with paired pilasters between, cornice and balustered parapet with urns. Left and right returns similar but single (not paired) columns on first floor. INTERIOR: good quality contemporary interiors including Classical plaster doorcases, pilasters and moulded entablature. HISTORICAL NOTE: W Bruce Gingell was the chief commercial architect in Bristol, responsible for banks, warehouses in the massive 'High Victorian' manner. Millstone grit from 3 different quarries was used in the construction: Bramley Fall for the heavily vermiculated plinth, Pool Bank for the finely rusticated ground floor and Venetian windows, and Rawdon Hill for the 2 upper storeys, columns, entablature and pedimented window heads. This building predates Gingell's Bristol work and is one of the first of the new-style commercial buildings in Leeds; it is noteworthy that it pre-dates the Town Hall. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-: 20; The Builder, 10 July 1858: 466-467).
Listing NGR: SE3007133556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464727
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 20
The Builder in 10 July, (1858), 466-467
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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