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105, Water Lane

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7917 / 53°47'30"N

Longitude: -1.5524 / 1°33'8"W

OS Eastings: 429586

OS Northings: 432910

OS Grid: SE295329

Mapcode National: GBR BHN.3K

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4Y1M

Plus Code: 9C5WQCRX+M3

Entry Name: 105, Water Lane

Listing Date: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255782

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465679

ID on this website: 101255782

Location: Camp Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11

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: Hunslet St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2932NE WATER LANE, Holbeck
714-1/80/859 (South side)
No.105

GV II

Office. Dated 1870, altered C20. for Smith, Beacock and
Tannett, Machine Tool Manufacturers. White-painted brick,
slate roof; deep bracketed eaves, hipped roof on corner, short
brick stack to right.
Single storey, 4 round-headed windows to Water Lane, 1 to
Foundry Street. In Italianate style. Ornate datestone with
initials SBT and date above corner entrance with panelled
2-leaf door in moulded brick surround carried around the
building as window arches on projecting impost band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
On the site of a house at the entrance to Matthew Murray's
Round Foundry works (qv), his business having closed in 1843.
Later the works was renamed the Victoria Foundry and gained a
reputation for training draughtsmen and engineers. Among the
'scores' being trained in the later C19 were members of the
Krupp family of German industrialists and armaments
manufacturers.
(Kilburn Scott E: Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds:
1928-: 82).



Listing NGR: SE2958632910

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