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Hunslet Engine Company Offices

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7838 / 53°47'1"N

Longitude: -1.5378 / 1°32'15"W

OS Eastings: 430554

OS Northings: 432041

OS Grid: SE305320

Mapcode National: GBR BLR.7D

Mapcode Global: WHC9L.B5Z3

Plus Code: 9C5WQFM6+GV

Entry Name: Hunslet Engine Company Offices

Listing Date: 11 February 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375028

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465908

ID on this website: 101375028

Location: Pottery Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10

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

SE3032 JACK LANE, Hunslet
714-1/43/845 (North side)
11/02/91 No.125
Hunslet Engine Company offices

GV II

Offices. Dated 1864 but probably 1880 or later. Brick,
stretcher bond, grey slate hipped roof with deep eaves
brackets, moulded brick stack forward of ridge, left.
2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, 2 of them circular. Panelled
door in tall stone surround with small pane overlight,
entablature and dentilled cornice with raised lettering:
'1864/ THE HUNSLET ENGINE CO'. Narrow cross windows, some
first-floor frames altered, stone sills and contrasting brick
lintel with stepped keyblock; first-floor sill band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Hunslet Engine Company was established in
1864 and continued the engineering business of EB Wilson who
in turn had taken over the Railway Foundry of Charles Todd
established in 1838 at the Pearson Street site (qv).
Part of the important Hunslet area locomotive manufacturing
centre in the later C19 and C20.
(Rolt, LTC: A Hunslet Hundred: one hundred years of locomotive
building ...: London: 1964-).


Listing NGR: SE3055432041

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