GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY

GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY, PEARSON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375478
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY, PEARSON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375478
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY, PEARSON STREET

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.

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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:: GATEWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO FORMER RAILWAY FOUNDRY, PEARSON STREET

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE3067032192

Details

SE3032 714-1/43/872 02/09/96

LEEDS PEARSON STREET, Hunslet (South side) Gateway and flanking walls to former Railway Foundry

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Archway and flanking walls. Probably 1846-50. For EB Wilson's Railway Foundry. Ashlar arch with cast-iron corner plates, red brick flanking walls. Wide basket arch, chamfered rustication, impost blocks, massive voussoirs, moulded cornice and entablature. Flanking walls originally the outer walls of the works' north courtyard range, extending approx 50m overall and parallel to the south range; 2 storeys reduced to 1, segmental-arched blocked windows, stone sills. HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Todd established the Railway Foundry in a former mill, later the south range, in 1838; for early history see Railway Foundry building (qv). The firm became EB Wilson and Co in 1846 and the 1847 OS map shows the yard and railway tracks leading through the gateway, across Pearson Street and looping round in the area south of Dow Beck where there were further buildings. Wilson's firm established the concept of a production line for standardised locomotive classes, the best known type built here being the 0-6-0 inside cylinder double frame goods engine with 160 built. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s the firm was the foremost locomotive builder in Britain; at closure in 1858 it was the most up-to-date locomotive works in the country. The estate was bought by Hudswell Clarke and Co and locomotive building continued, later becoming the Hunslet Engine Company, No.125 Jack Lane (qv). (Redman RN: The Railway Foundry, Leeds 1829-1969: Norwich: 1972-).

Listing NGR: SE3067032192

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Legacy System number:: 466376
Legacy System:: LBS

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Redman, R, The Railway Foundry Leeds 1839-1969, (1972)

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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.