SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE

SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE, DOCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375350
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:: SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE, DOCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375350
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE, DOCK STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SIMPSONS FOLD WAREHOUSE, DOCK STREET

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 30318 33156

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LEEDS

SE3033SW DOCK STREET 714-1/78/154 (North side (off)) 05/08/76 Simpson's Fold Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: DOCK STREET, Aire And Calder Dock (North side) Simpson's Fold Warehouse)

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2 warehouses, now storage for Waterways Board. Early C19, with C20 alterations. Ashlar plinth to basement, red brick above, stone dressings, slate roof to main block, C20 tile roof to north side infill block. South, entrance front: 4 storeys with attic, 4 segmental-arch openings to gable facade, 7 to side wall obscured by added range, lower 2 storeys white painted. Gable: a tier of loading doors to right of centre, platforms and rails, inserted loading door to first floor left; small-pane windows, some openings blocked; attic storey: central loading door flanked by lunette windows, pulley above. Projecting band at first, and 2nd-floor levels. Rear (to river): left gable of main block has 2 tiers of loading doors with platforms on brackets flanked by former sashes, the lower half of the windows bricked up; segmental arches to all openings; over both top doorways is an iron pulley under a segmental-arch canopy, lunette window above; narrower central loading door to gable, stone sills throughout. Infill block to right: 5 storeys, central loading doors with stone platforms on brackets flanked by 16-pane sashes, all openings have moulded brick segmental arches and reveals; heavy stone modillion cornice with pedimented parapet, brick stack. Right return: 7 openings, part obscured by adjacent building, the right 4-window section breaking forward, the left having a tier of loading doors flanked by sashes as north gable; first-floor band carried round from front. INTERIOR: not inspected. The plan of the buildings is shown on the 1847 Ordnance Survey map.

Listing NGR: SE3031833156

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Legacy System number:: 466245
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.