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St Jame's Hall Westminster Buildings

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7966 / 53°47'47"N

Longitude: -1.5382 / 1°32'17"W

OS Eastings: 430514

OS Northings: 433464

OS Grid: SE305334

Mapcode National: GBR BLL.4T

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.BTRT

Plus Code: 9C5WQFW6+JP

Entry Name: St Jame's Hall Westminster Buildings

Listing Date: 14 August 1986

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375231

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466113

ID on this website: 101375231

Location: Steander, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2

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

SE3033SE NEW YORK STREET
714-1/79/271 (North side)
14/08/86 Nos.25-41 (Odd)
St James's Hall and Westminster
Buildings
(Formerly Listed as:
NEW YORK STREET
St James's Hall, now Westminster
Chamber)

GV II

Includes: No.5 HARPER STREET.
Temperance hotel, public hall and dining rooms, now shops and
offices. 1877, enlarged 1884, altered C20. By Thomas Ambler
for WJ Armitage. Red brick, with polychrome brick and stone
dressings, C20 flat roof not visible. Gothic Revival style. 4
storeys; an island site with a long elevation to New York
Street and short returns.
Ground floor: 8 bays of shops, flat-headed fascias left,
segmental right, original arrangement with use of cast-iron,
brackets supporting dentilled cornice and ball finials on left
return; central double doors under a crocketed gable to
Westminster Building. 1st and 2nd floors: 8 lancets with
colonnettes to right, rising through both floors; centre: 3
arched bays with 2 tiers of windows with traceried heads;
left: 3 plainer bays with paired windows. Sashes throughout.
3rd floor: 8 plain sashes to right, 6 paired sashes with
arched heads left. Parapet and roof line damaged and repaired.
3-light canted corners, lancets right (Harper Street) and more
decorative tracery on left return, the eaves having a stone
plaque inscribed 'ST JAMES'S HALL'.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The building originally contained coffee, dining, reading and
smoking rooms on the ground floor, a lecture room seating 450
on the 1st floor, club rooms and the manager's apartments on
the 2nd floor and dormitory apartments for strangers and
working men on the 3rd floor. Attic floor destroyed by fire
mid C20.


Listing NGR: SE3051433463

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