Victoria Buildings
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 1 AND 2, ROWLING PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375196
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 1 AND 2, ROWLING PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375196
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 1 AND 2, ROWLING PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 1, MOOR ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 14, WEETWOOD LANE
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:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 1 AND 2, ROWLING PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 1, MOOR ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 14, WEETWOOD LANE
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 27608 36968
Details
LEEDS
SE2736NE MOOR ROAD, Far Headingley
714-1/59/660 (North side)
05/08/76 No.1
Victoria Buildings
(Formerly Listed as:
MOOR ROAD, Far Headingley
No.1)
GV II
Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 Victoria Buildings ROWLING PLACE Far
Headingley.
Includes: No.14 Victoria Buildings WEETWOOD LANE Far
Headingley.
Also known as: Moor Road Works MOOR ROAD Far Headingley.
Corner shop and offices. Dated 1841. Coursed squared dressed
gritstone, slate roof.
3 storeys, 2 windows, angled corner bay. Central 6-panel door
with 4-pane overlight, plain lintel. 16-pane sashes to ground
floor right and 1st floor; square 4-pane shop window left, low
6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. 8-flue stacks straddle ridge
centre and right, the latter corniced.
Left return, to Weetwood Lane: the splayed angle has shop door
to ground floor and blind window above with the inscription on
lintel: 'VICTORIA BUILDINGS/ 1841'. 3 storeys, 3 sashes with
glazing bars, gable over.
Rear, to Rawling Place: 2 fielded-panel doors with overlights,
sashes with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Small plots on Headingley Moor were offered for sale in 1831;
this development was on an important corner site and was
possibly built as shop and houses.
(The Rise of Suburbia, Thompson FML: Treen, C: The process of
suburban development in North Leeds 1870-1914: 1982-: 164;
Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).
Listing NGR: SE2760836968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466078
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thompson, F M L, The Rise of Suburbia, (), 164
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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