Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road
Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road, Dewsbury Road, Hunslet, Leeds, LS11 6XD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375340
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road
- Statutory Address:
- Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road, Dewsbury Road, Hunslet, Leeds, LS11 6XD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375340
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road, Dewsbury Road, Hunslet, Leeds, LS11 6XD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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 Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road, Dewsbury Road, Hunslet, Leeds, LS11 6XD
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 30100 31720
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 August 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE33SW
714-1/11/538
LEEDS
Beeston Hill
DEWSBURY ROAD (West side)
Former Police Station and former Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road
(Formerly listed as Police Station and Public Library at junction with Hunslet Hall Road)
II
Police station and public library. c1903, altered C20. By Francis Bedford. Red brick, ashlar dressings, slate roofs. Two storeys with basements and attics, corner site with nine-bay library frontage to Dewsbury Road, former Police Station entrance on corner.
Classical style with panelled double doors to (blocked) library entrance in eared architrave, cornice, segmental three-light window above, plaque with putti leaning on books with swags and 'PUBLIC LIBRARY' on scroll, two-light window in pilastered surround above, flanking giant order pilasters and open segmental pediment with oval scrolled plaque. Pediments over projecting entrance bays one and five, and with giant pilasters flanking corner Police Station entrance which has blocked doorway in architrave flanked by paired Ionic attached columns, covered plaque, three-light window with Ionic pilasters, modillion cornice, balustraded parapet above. Tall rectangular windows and round-arched openings to ground floor, shorter sash windows and Venetian windows to first floor, three flat-roofed dormers to Hunslet Hall Road facade. Turret with domed roof and finial at south end, ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Francis Bedford also worked in partnership with Sidney Kitson; he died in 1903.
Listing NGR: SE3010031720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466235
- 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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