Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse

Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse, Domestic Street, Leeds

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375352
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse
Statutory Address:: Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse, Domestic Street, Leeds

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375352
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse
Statutory Address 1:: Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse, Domestic Street, Leeds

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:: Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse, Domestic Street, Leeds

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 28975 32276

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 May 2024 to amend the architect's name and to reformat the text to current standards

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LEEDS Holbeck DOMESTIC STREET (south west side) Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse

30/04/82 II

United Methodist Free Church, now carpet warehouse. c1880, altered C20. To designs by Thomas Ambler of Leeds. Baroque Revival style. Ashlar front and brick sides, stone dressed, with former Sunday School cross wing at rear. The grand front with a deep plinth is dominated by a giant Corinthian columned bowed portico, the full entablature surmounted by a balustrade with urn finials on the dies, is returned over narrow flanking bays and then broken forward over giant Corinthian quoin pilastered corner towers. Pedimented gable set back behind portico. Half of the circular domed entrance vestibule breaks out into the portico abutting the columns with pedimented doorways following curve. Rosette plaques and squat pilastered windows to recessed first floor. The narrow flanking bays have cartouches and round-headed lights. Eared architrave, round-arched windows to towers, pediments on consoles to ground floor. The console bracketed eaves cornice studded with lion heads is returned along brick sides. Recessed round-arched window bay. Vermiculated plinth.

INTERIOR: virtually intact apart from removal of pews. The vestibule projecting into the portico has a compartmented dome internally lofty interior to chapel proper with deep cove to compartmented ceiling, rich plasterwork, large pendant decorative 'trumpet' vents to each compartment. Ornate acanthus and drop finialed frame with square panel containing rose to ceiling of organ loft apse. Curved ended all round gallery, vast seating capacity, on cast-iron columns with foliate capitals. The deep end of gallery above entrance has screen of similar ornate cast-iron columns supporting corbelled coved ceiling at higher level. Little altered in spite of change of use.

Listing NGR: SE2897532276

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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.