Description

LEEDS

SE3034 MABGATE
714-1/29/1313 (East side)
05/08/76 Hope Foundry entrance range and Hope
House
(Formerly Listed as:
MABGATE
Hope Foundry)

II

Entrance range to brass and iron foundry. Built between 1831
and 1850. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Developed
Greek Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 unequal bays. Wider right bay has a
fine battered archway which rises through the ground and first
floors, in shouldered architrave ornamented with key pattern
and lion masks, heavy modillion cornice. Four 16-pane sashes
to top storey, below a deep ashlar band with raised lettering
"HOPE FOUNDRY", deep moulded cornice and blocking course. The
left bay projects slightly, the ground floor obscured by an
early C20 3-window block, sashes with margin lights to first
and second floors, pilasters, ashlar band, blocking course. A
similar bay to right of the foundry entrance was demolished
before 1963.
The left bay is incorporated into the 1910 range (Hope House),
which extends around the corner with Hope Road: Classical
style with ashlar plinth, floor and sill bands, deep cornice
band, blocking course. Round-arched corner entrance with
flanking attached columns supporting open segmental pediment
with scrolled date plaque. Sash windows in shouldered
architraves flank entrance, triangular pediments above 3
corner windows and to the outer bays, 3- and 7-window bays
between.
INTERIOR: the panelled double doors open into lobby and stair
hall with grey and white veined marble floor and wall panels,
moulded plaster cornice and wall plaques with fruit and flower
motifs, stone staircase with scrolled bronze balustrade.
HISTORY: Hope Mill (flax) was owned by John Lawson (possible
the engineer still living in 1877) and William Walker (a cloth
drawer and building speculator) in 1812. It stood to the north
of this site and the owners developed the iron foundry from
c1820, Fowler's Plan of Leeds showing several buildings on the
edge of Mabgate Beck in 1831. The earliest plan showing the
entrance range (iron and brass foundry) is the 1850 OS map.
(Beresford MW: East End, West End: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SE3095134007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655946

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014