Description

LEEDS

SE2932NE WATER LANE, Holbeck
714-1/80/859 (South side)
No.105

GV II

Office. Dated 1870, altered C20. for Smith, Beacock and
Tannett, Machine Tool Manufacturers. White-painted brick,
slate roof; deep bracketed eaves, hipped roof on corner, short
brick stack to right.
Single storey, 4 round-headed windows to Water Lane, 1 to
Foundry Street. In Italianate style. Ornate datestone with
initials SBT and date above corner entrance with panelled
2-leaf door in moulded brick surround carried around the
building as window arches on projecting impost band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
On the site of a house at the entrance to Matthew Murray's
Round Foundry works (qv), his business having closed in 1843.
Later the works was renamed the Victoria Foundry and gained a
reputation for training draughtsmen and engineers. Among the
'scores' being trained in the later C19 were members of the
Krupp family of German industrialists and armaments
manufacturers.
(Kilburn Scott E: Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds:
1928-: 82).

Listing NGR: SE2958632910

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547342

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