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Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7948 / 53°47'41"N

Longitude: -1.5629 / 1°33'46"W

OS Eastings: 428891

OS Northings: 433259

OS Grid: SE288332

Mapcode National: GBR BDM.WF

Mapcode Global: WHC9C.YWY5

Plus Code: 9C5WQCVP+WR

Entry Name: Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Listing Date: 19 June 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255717

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465706

ID on this website: 101255717

Location: New Wortley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12

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: Armley with New Wortley

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


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SE2833 WELLINGTON ROAD 714-1/34/418 (East side) 19/06/86 Former railway repair shop parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal

GV II

Railway repair shop, now commercial storage premises. c1847. By Thomas Grainger (line engineer) and John Bourne (resident engineer) for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company. Brick with stone dressings, slate and corrugated iron roof. Long single-storey rectangular range. Bays defined by brick pilasters rising into eaves band. To each bay a round-arched window, some with early glazing surviving, others blocked, with projecting stone sills. North front has blocked doorway (which gave access to canal side) and is broken by a taller, C20, corrugated-iron roofed projection; range to left has 3 tall eaves stacks, skylights and roof hipped with 2 eaves stacks at left end; range to right has short eaves stacks, continuous ridge louvre and coping separating it from corrugated-iron roofed section to far right. Left return, in style of the Roundhouse (qv); 3 bays: central, blocked segmental-arched entrance; cornice, blocking course. C19 and C20 additions not of special interest. INTERIOR: timber queen-post roof trusses. A water tower formerly stood to the E of the building and was linked to it. (Fitzgerald, R: Railway Complex, Wellington Street. Report to Leeds City Council: 1985-; Leeds City Council, Department of Planning: Directors' Report, EDG/RMM Q202/2, 24 March 1986).



Listing NGR: SE2889133259

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