Sugarwell Court
SUGARWELL COURT, MEANWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375170
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sugarwell Court
- Statutory Address:
- SUGARWELL COURT, MEANWOOD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375170
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Sugarwell Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUGARWELL COURT, MEANWOOD ROAD
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:
- SUGARWELL COURT, MEANWOOD ROAD
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 29645 35921
Details
LEEDS
SE2935 MEANWOOD ROAD 714-1/24/245 (North East side) 05/02/87 Sugarwell Court (Formerly Listed as: MEANWOOD ROAD (North East side) Sugarwell Works)
GV II
Formerly known as: Cliff Tannery MEANWOOD ROAD. Tannery, now student accommodation. Dated 1866, additions c1900, converted c1993. For Edward Kitchen. Rusticated sandstone with ashlar dressings, C20 slate roof. 2 ranges forming L-shape. 3 storeys, the top storey added, over a basement near Meanwood Beck; 24-bay entrance range, roadside range 23 bays. Plinth. Between bays, 2-storey pilasters with plain capitals rise from band to support band and modillion cornice, the windows on 2 lower floors having moulded sills and monolithic cambered-arched lintels, frames replaced. 3rd floor has wider 2-light windows, the top lights with round-arched glazing bars, separated by pilasters and with segmental-arched lintels. 3-bay entrance, in bays 5-7 of entrance range, has round-arched carriageway, moulded archivolt with keystone bearing date and scrolled shield with bird-head crest rising from piers flanked by colonnettes and with giant head capitals, possibly portraits of the owners. Window above this set slightly higher than other 1st-floor windows; to either side a pedestrian door with cambered-arched overlight in pulvinated surround. Eaves gutter brackets. Modillion cornice to ridge stack over entrance. INTERIOR: central rows of circular cast-iron columns supporting timber cross-beams, 1st-floor columns more slender than those below. At S end of roadside range a broad flight of stone stairs rising to upper floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: Edward Kitchen started tanning in 1854 in Harper Street; he moved to this site (then Cliff Tannery) after building 63 back-to-back houses for his workpeople (demolished). His tannery produced East India Kips, a Leeds speciality, and Cape and Sidney Butts. Skins were dried on the top floor and softened and soaked in water and lime in the rear glazed yard (demolished). Water was drawn from a roadside well and pumped from Meanwood Beck. Leeds was a major tanning centre in the C19, second only to
London by the 1850s, and this is one of the best-surviving mid C19 tanneries. (Powell, K et al: Save Britain's Heritage; Leeds - a lost opportunity?).
Listing NGR: SE2964535921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466052
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Powell, K, Leeds a lost opportunity?, (1986)
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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