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Latitude: 53.7944 / 53°47'40"N
Longitude: -1.5644 / 1°33'52"W
OS Eastings: 428788
OS Northings: 433214
OS Grid: SE287332
Mapcode National: GBR BDM.JL
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.YW6H
Plus Code: 9C5WQCVP+Q6
Entry Name: The Round House (Leeds Commercial Van and Truck Rental Premises)
Listing Date: 19 June 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255725
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465714
Also known as: Railway Roundhouse
The Round House
ID on this website: 101255725
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
Tagged with: Engine house
LEEDS
SE2833 WELLINGTON ROAD
714-1/34/424 (East side)
19/06/86 The Roundhouse (Leeds Commercial Van
and Truck Rental premises)
GV II*
Engine house, now garage. Completed 1847, altered C20.
Exterior restored 1990-94. By Thomas Grainger (line engineer)
and John Bourne (resident engineer) for the Leeds and Thirsk
Railway Company. Red bricks of semi-shale type pressed to give
a smooth finish and fired in a coal clamp; stone dressings
generally of Bramley Fall or Horsforth type, slate roof.
Single-storey polygon, annular plan. Plinth; pilasters
defining bays rise into deep moulded cornice with blocking
course.
Main entrance, in east side, has tall elliptical-arched
doorway with incised, radiating voussoirs and blocking course
pedimented above cornice. Each bay has paired round-headed
windows in recessed reveals with rubbed brick arches; some
early glazing survives but with alterations and inserted
doorways. Skylights in roof which slopes up to ridge louvre,
the centre of the polygon originally open-roofed.
INTERIOR: brick arcade around centre formerly enclosed
turntable (open to roof) and has arches (originally with
wooden doors) through which the locomotives would have passed
from the turntable onto the stabling road and with a pit. Roof
trusses, supported by arcade and by cast-iron corbels at outer
ends, have iron queen bolts and long diagonal braces (tension
members of cast-iron, compression members of timber). Roof
underdrawn with boards in places.
The engine house was designed to accommodate up to 20
locomotives; it went out of use when this site was superseded
by a depot at Neville Hill in 1898.
(Fitzgerald, R: Leeds Dept of Planning Report: 1985-: 2; Leeds
City Council Department of Planning: Director's Report,
EDG/RMM Q202/2, 24 March 1986).
Listing NGR: SE2878833213
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