Britannia Buildings
BRITANNIA BUILDINGS, 4, OXFORD PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375376
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Britannia Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- BRITANNIA BUILDINGS, 4, OXFORD PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375376
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Britannia Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRITANNIA BUILDINGS, 4, OXFORD PLACE
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:
- BRITANNIA BUILDINGS, 4, OXFORD PLACE
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 29701 33890
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE OXFORD PLACE 714-1/75/276 (West side) 22/03/74 No.4 Britannia Buildings
GV II
Offices. 1868. Probably by Charles Fowler. Brick, English bond, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 3 storeys over basement; 3 bays with 3:2:3 1st-floor windows. Central entrance with original panelled doors and pointed arch with paired attached columns and carved name: 'BRITANNIA BUILDINGS' over. Fenestration: slender columns with foliate caps support stone pointed arches; plate-glass sashes slightly recessed, 2-lights to centre and 3-lights to either side. Gables over end bays with small quatrefoil openings, similar piercing to short centre parapet which projects over a small canopy between the centre window, possibly a statue plinth. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Fowler was an engineer and surveyor who published a plan of Leeds in 1819. By 1845 he was described as an architect at No.17 Commercial Street (qv) and from 1867 his firm was in Britannia Buildings, probably designed by him. Considered to be the first purpose-built block of office chambers in Leeds, (Victorian Society Walks). (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-: 376; Victorian Society Walk No.4: Douglas, J & Powell, K: Leeds: Four Architectural Walks, 3rd Edition: 1988-: 16).
Listing NGR: SE2970133890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466272
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 376
Douglas, J, Powell, K, Victorian Society Walks in Leeds Three Architectural Walks, (1988), 16
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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