Description

LEEDS

SE23NE CHURCH WOOD AVENUE, Far Headingley
714-1/6/651 (North West side)
Water Works Meter House

II

Meter house. Built between 1905 and 1912. Rock-faced ashlar,
grey slate roof. A tall single-storey building in Gothic
Revival style set against the side of the filtration
reservoir. Central porch with pointed arch and paired board
doors, cornice and blocking course. Flanking arched 2-light
windows with hoodmoulds; angle buttresses, moulded stone
brackets support deep blocking course with arched recesses.
Hipped roof with glazed ventilation canopy, iron finials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
In 1905 seven filter beds in Weetwood treated the water from
the Washburn valley reservoirs; by 1912 there were 17 beds in
Headingley (Kelly), suggesting that this building dates from
the period when the filter beds were extended across Otley
Road. Water reached the town by gravitation or via North Lane
Pumping Station, North Lane, Headingley (qv).
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1905 and 1912).

Listing NGR: SE2726237149

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547145

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings