Description

LEEDS

SE3033SE THE CALLS
714-1/79/383 (South side)
Nos.90-134 AND 99-109 (Consecutive)
The Chandler's

GV II

Formerly known as: No.64 THE CALLS.
Mills, now flats. 1876, converted c1985. For William Turton.
Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof.
4 storeys and basement, corner site with 10 first-floor
windows to Crown Point Road and 6 to The Calls: triplet
windows and sill band to first and 2nd floors, round-arched
windows to top storey, small square openings, altered, to
ground floor, Crown Point Road, cambered lintels to
architraves on The Calls facade.
Corner pedestrian entrance: panelled double doors in stone
round-arched surround, raised lettering: 'WILLIAM TURTON',
carved impost blocks and keystone; above first-floor window:
'ESTD. WT 1844', above first floor: 'REBUILT 1876'. Arched
entrance to yard from The Calls has rusticated voussoirs and a
horse's head carved on the keystone; panelled double doors.
Courtyard: a tower reputed to contain a spiral stair and with
an ornate iron railing to viewing platform, possibly a former
chimney flue, against the Crown Point block.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was a store for horse feed at a
time when horses were vital to the businesses which had to
transport goods to and from the railway termini; William
Turton had other interests in horse transport: he was Chairman
of the Bradford Tramway and Omnibus Co., and the Leeds Tramway
Co., and was a coal merchant during the later C19. The site at
Crown Point Bridge (qv), built 1840, is on the important wharf
of that date; products arriving by boat were unloaded into the
rear yard and after processing, carried through the entrance
on The Calls for distribution. The viewing platform would have
commanded a good view of traffic on the river and the Leeds
and Liverpool Canal. Said to contain stabling on ground
floor/basement.
(Hatcher, J: The Industrial Architecture of North Yorkshire:
1985-: 122; Yorkshire Archaeological Society Industrial
Archaeology Section: Eye on the Aire Report; Chandlers
Warehouse, Crown Point Road).

Listing NGR: SE3074933197

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547484

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)