Former Holbeck Public Library
FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375233
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Holbeck Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375233
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Holbeck Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH 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:
- FORMER HOLBECK PUBLIC LIBRARY, NINEVEH 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 29542 32387
Details
LEEDS
SE2932 NINEVEH ROAD, Holbeck 714-1/42/850 (North side) Former Holbeck Public Library
II
Formerly known as: Cambrian Public House NINEVEH ROAD Holbeck. Public library, later health centre and public house. 1901. By William Bakewell. Red brick faced in salt-glazed Burmantofts terracotta, grey slate roof. A corner site on sloping ground, 2 storeys over basement, central tower with octagonal hipped roof. Complicated fenestration includes mullion windows to Nineveh Road frontage flanked by wings with transoms, round-arched windows flanking entrance porch with segmental pediment on consoles, a large 4-light canted bay on corner flanked by turret-like bays, all with small-pane frames. Banded and moulded wall decoration includes Leeds coat of arms over entrance, Art Nouveau plaques and scrolls, balustraded parapet. INTERIOR: not inspected. William Bakewell designed several important buildings in Leeds, including the 1899 extensions to the Tower Works, Globe Road (qv). The Cambrian public house closed 1990.
Listing NGR: SE2954232387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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