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159, Briggate

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7956 / 53°47'43"N

Longitude: -1.5422 / 1°32'31"W

OS Eastings: 430254

OS Northings: 433346

OS Grid: SE302333

Mapcode National: GBR BKM.95

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.8VWM

Plus Code: 9C5WQFW5+64

Entry Name: 159, Briggate

Listing Date: 15 January 1985

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255835

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465593

ID on this website: 101255835

Location: Steander, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1

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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LEEDS

SE3033SW BRIGGATE
714-1/78/66 (East side)
15/01/85 No.159
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER BRIGGATE
No.159)

II

Shop and warehouse, now restaurant. Mid C18 reusing C17 roof
structure, frontage rebuilt mid C19 and attic storey detailing
added late C19; restoration 1989. Brick, rendered and with
terracotta detail to front; probably slate roof.
Frontage to Briggate of 3 storeys and attic; rear range of 3
storeys and 5 bays. Frontage: C20 ground floor with access to
rear on left; 2nd and attic storey ornamented with
architraves, scrolled pediments, moulded plaques and urn
finials.
INTERIOR: of rear range reputed (1983) to contain important
roof structure comprising 3 king-post roof trusses, all with
jointing for timber-framed side walling on underside of tie
beam, and one having slots for a cross-wall.
Surviving remains suggest that this is a roof structure reused
in this context and a very rare survival of part of a house in
the town centre before the extensive rebuilding during the
mid-late C18.
Recorded as a hotel in 1740 and a hotel and tavern in 1800.
The yard to rear was Bower's Yard and the premises belonged to
a wallpaper hanger and factor from c1870.
(Michelmore, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service: Report on
No.159 Briggate: 1983-).


Listing NGR: SE3025433346

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