Description

LEEDS

SE3032 JACK LANE, Hunslet
714-1/43/845 (North side)
11/02/91 No.125
Hunslet Engine Company offices

GV II

Offices. Dated 1864 but probably 1880 or later. Brick,
stretcher bond, grey slate hipped roof with deep eaves
brackets, moulded brick stack forward of ridge, left.
2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, 2 of them circular. Panelled
door in tall stone surround with small pane overlight,
entablature and dentilled cornice with raised lettering:
'1864/ THE HUNSLET ENGINE CO'. Narrow cross windows, some
first-floor frames altered, stone sills and contrasting brick
lintel with stepped keyblock; first-floor sill band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Hunslet Engine Company was established in
1864 and continued the engineering business of EB Wilson who
in turn had taken over the Railway Foundry of Charles Todd
established in 1838 at the Pearson Street site (qv).
Part of the important Hunslet area locomotive manufacturing
centre in the later C19 and C20.
(Rolt, LTC: A Hunslet Hundred: one hundred years of locomotive
building ...: London: 1964-).

Listing NGR: SE3055432041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655850

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)