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Acorn Glass Merchants Premises

A Grade II Listed Building in Moortown, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.8305 / 53°49'49"N

Longitude: -1.5688 / 1°34'7"W

OS Eastings: 428479

OS Northings: 437222

OS Grid: SE284372

Mapcode National: GBR BC6.MN

Mapcode Global: WHC95.WZ4C

Plus Code: 9C5WRCJJ+5F

Entry Name: Acorn Glass Merchants Premises

Listing Date: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255584

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465853

ID on this website: 101255584

Location: Meanwood, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Moortown

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Meanwood Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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LEEDS

SE23NE CHURCH LANE, Meanwood
714-1/6/955 (West side)
Acorn Glass Merchants' premises

II

Formerly known as: Woodside Wesleyan Chapel CHURCH LANE
Meanwood.
Wesleyan chapel, now warehouse and offices. Dated 1811,
additions 1883, altered C20. Built by Samuel Prince, class
leader and stone mason. Coursed squared gritstone, roof
replaced in concrete tiles.
Single storey, 5 windows. Plinth. Central board door to chapel
entrance, round-arched window with date plaque, 'AD 1811'
above, in plain stone surround with impost blocks. Flanking
windows similar, 5 x 4-pane sashes with glazing bars. Entrance
left, between windows 1 and 2, in plain stone surround.
Rear: a lean-to range, original windows. Left return: added
bay not of special interest. Right return, to road: narrow
window to ground floor, possibly an entrance originally;
lunette window to gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The building was sold to George Barber in 1883 who added the
mock timber-framed end bay and converted the chapel to a
laundry which closed c1973.
(Hopwood, W A & Casperson, F P: Meanwood, Village, Valley,
Industry and People: 1986-: 33; Hopwood, A & Rose, S:
Sesquicentenary Story: 150 years of Meanwood Methodism: 1961-:
13).



Listing NGR: SE2847937222

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