Description

LEEDS

SE23NE CHURCH WOOD AVENUE, Far Headingley 714-1/6/651 (North West side) Water Works Meter House

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Meter house. Built between 1905 and 1912. Rock-faced ashlar, grey slate roof. A tall single-storey building in Gothic Revival style set against the side of the filtration reservoir. Central porch with pointed arch and paired board doors, cornice and blocking course. Flanking arched 2-light windows with hoodmoulds; angle buttresses, moulded stone brackets support deep blocking course with arched recesses. Hipped roof with glazed ventilation canopy, iron finials. INTERIOR: not inspected. In 1905 seven filter beds in Weetwood treated the water from the Washburn valley reservoirs; by 1912 there were 17 beds in Headingley (Kelly), suggesting that this building dates from the period when the filter beds were extended across Otley Road. Water reached the town by gravitation or via North Lane Pumping Station, North Lane, Headingley (qv). (Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1905 and 1912).

Listing NGR: SE2726237149

External Links

• Wikidata Q26547145

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)