Hope Foundry Entrance Range and Hope House
HOPE FOUNDRY ENTRANCE RANGE AND HOPE HOUSE, MABGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375127
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Foundry Entrance Range and Hope House
- Statutory Address:
- HOPE FOUNDRY ENTRANCE RANGE AND HOPE HOUSE, MABGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375127
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Hope Foundry Entrance Range and Hope House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPE FOUNDRY ENTRANCE RANGE AND HOPE HOUSE, MABGATE
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:
- HOPE FOUNDRY ENTRANCE RANGE AND HOPE HOUSE, MABGATE
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:
- SE3095134007
Details
LEEDS
SE3034 MABGATE
714-1/29/1313 (East side)
05/08/76 Hope Foundry entrance range and Hope
House
(Formerly Listed as:
MABGATE
Hope Foundry)
II
Entrance range to brass and iron foundry. Built between 1831
and 1850. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Developed
Greek Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 unequal bays. Wider right bay has a
fine battered archway which rises through the ground and first
floors, in shouldered architrave ornamented with key pattern
and lion masks, heavy modillion cornice. Four 16-pane sashes
to top storey, below a deep ashlar band with raised lettering
"HOPE FOUNDRY", deep moulded cornice and blocking course. The
left bay projects slightly, the ground floor obscured by an
early C20 3-window block, sashes with margin lights to first
and second floors, pilasters, ashlar band, blocking course. A
similar bay to right of the foundry entrance was demolished
before 1963.
The left bay is incorporated into the 1910 range (Hope House),
which extends around the corner with Hope Road: Classical
style with ashlar plinth, floor and sill bands, deep cornice
band, blocking course. Round-arched corner entrance with
flanking attached columns supporting open segmental pediment
with scrolled date plaque. Sash windows in shouldered
architraves flank entrance, triangular pediments above 3
corner windows and to the outer bays, 3- and 7-window bays
between.
INTERIOR: the panelled double doors open into lobby and stair
hall with grey and white veined marble floor and wall panels,
moulded plaster cornice and wall plaques with fruit and flower
motifs, stone staircase with scrolled bronze balustrade.
HISTORY: Hope Mill (flax) was owned by John Lawson (possible
the engineer still living in 1877) and William Walker (a cloth
drawer and building speculator) in 1812. It stood to the north
of this site and the owners developed the iron foundry from
c1820, Fowler's Plan of Leeds showing several buildings on the
edge of Mabgate Beck in 1831. The earliest plan showing the
entrance range (iron and brass foundry) is the 1850 OS map.
(Beresford MW: East End, West End: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SE3095134007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988)
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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