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Number 56 and Attached Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7965 / 53°47'47"N

Longitude: -1.5513 / 1°33'4"W

OS Eastings: 429651

OS Northings: 433446

OS Grid: SE296334

Mapcode National: GBR BHL.BV

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4TJX

Plus Code: 9C5WQCWX+HF

Entry Name: Number 56 and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255737

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465726

ID on this website: 101255737

Location: Granary Wharf, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Leeds St George

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET
714-1/77/432 (North side)
05/08/76 No.56
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WELLINGTON STREET
(North side)
No.56)

GV II

Offices. Dated 1873, altered C20. Probably by Henry Walker for
William Smith. Ashlar, slate roof, wrought-iron railings with
gate. Gothic Revival style.
4 storeys over basement, 2 uneven bays. Panelled double doors
to right in a moulded pointed arch under a gable with 2 small
Gothic windows and quatrefoil opening, canted bay carried up
to a turret with octagonal spire and gargoyles. Wider left bay
has cross windows to ground floor, paired flat-arched windows
to 1st and 2nd floors and 3 Gothic windows of 2 lights with
plate tracery to 3rd floor; quatrefoil plaques and incised
date in coped gable surmounted by a crocketed finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement railings: ashlar wall, square
panels of ironwork with central boss and circles, standards
with leaf finials.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
1978-: 304).



Listing NGR: SE2965133446

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