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Permanent House and Headrow Buildings

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7997 / 53°47'58"N

Longitude: -1.5457 / 1°32'44"W

OS Eastings: 430020

OS Northings: 433807

OS Grid: SE300338

Mapcode National: GBR BJK.JP

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.7R6F

Plus Code: 9C5WQFX3+VP

Entry Name: Permanent House and Headrow Buildings

Listing Date: 11 April 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255859

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465578

Also known as: The Light, Leeds
Permanent House

ID on this website: 101255859

Location: 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 City

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2933NE THE HEADROW
714-1/75/389 (North side)
11/04/95 Nos.44-72 (Even)
Permanent House and Headrow
Buildings

GV II

Shop and office building. 1930-31 and 1955. Overall design by
Sir Reginald Blomfield and GW Atkinson. Portland stone and red
brick, slate roof. Classical style.
4 storeys, stepped 4-part 27-window facade to The Headrow,
left 9-window return of 1930 and a further 11-window addition
of 1955 to Cookridge Street and right 4-window return to
Albion Street.
Ashlar corner bays, rusticated ground floor, round keyed
arches to slightly projecting entrance bays, tall shop windows
to Nos 44-60, ground-floor windows to Nos 70 & 72 altered
later C20. Rectangular windows with metal frames, ashlar
architraves to first floor and entrance bays, segmental
pediments, swags, panelled and balustraded parapet, urns. A
tall carriage arch surmounted by columns in antis, entablature
and parapet links the 2 parts of the building over Cross
Fountaine Street. Rear, Nos 50-60: giant metal-framed windows
with decorative panels to upper floors.
INTERIOR: Headrow Buildings; fine original fittings include
tiled walls to corridors, marble-lined stairs, with
wrought-iron balustrade and brass handrails, service rooms,
brass window catches, black and white stone floors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building on the corner with Cookridge
Street was opened on 15 May 1930 as the headquarters of the
Leeds Permanent Building Society (founded 1848); the uphill
range, with corner to Albion Street, was opened on 3 December
1931 by Mr Charles Lupton, chairman of the Leeds Corporation
Improvements Committee; a plaque in the entrance records the
event. The latter consisted of 9 shops and 89 offices used by
the Leeds Electricity Department, Inland Revenue, and
Cadbury's. A photograph taken in 1955 (Heap, p.17) shows the
western half of the Cookridge Street range under construction.
(Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial record: Leeds: 1990-: 17,
23).



Listing NGR: SE3002033807

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