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Latitude: 53.7971 / 53°47'49"N
Longitude: -1.5426 / 1°32'33"W
OS Eastings: 430225
OS Northings: 433516
OS Grid: SE302335
Mapcode National: GBR BKL.6M
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.8TPG
Plus Code: 9C5WQFW4+RX
Entry Name: 50 and 51, Briggate
Listing Date: 21 July 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255856
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465574
ID on this website: 101255856
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
SE3033NW BRIGGATE
714-1/76/60 (West side)
21/07/94 Nos.50 AND 51
GV II
Premises of Thornton and Co, India Rubber Manufacturers.
c1918, altered C20. By SD Kitson. Reinforced concrete and
steel frame faced in matt-glazed faience ('Burmantofts Marmo')
by the Leeds Fireclay Co., roof not visible.
3 storeys, 2 bays, Classical style. Late C20 ground-floor shop
windows. The 2 bays have identical facades of recessed 2-tier
windows behind fluted columns in antis with rosette and
egg-and-dart motifs to capitals, entablature with triglyphs,
deep modillion eaves cornice and pierced blocking course with
centre plaque flanked by lion heads. Raised lettering on the
plaques: THORNTON/AND CO. LTD; and on the entablature, left:
INDIA RUBBER MANUFACTURERS, right, (cut back): THORNTON & CO.
LIMITED.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This is one of the '3 notable buildings with their Burmantofts
Marmo facades intact in Leeds', (van Lemmen 1984). 'Marmo' was
an imitation marble made by the Leeds Fireclay Company after
1889. Other buildings in the city include Atlas Chambers, King
Street and The Scottish Union and National Insurance Co., Park
Row (qv). An undated photograph in the Kirkstall Museum
archive shows that the left facade only was built originally.
(Journal of the Victorian Society, West Yorkshire: van Lemman,
H: Burmantofts Marmo: 1983-1984: 22).
Listing NGR: SE3022533516
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