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Latitude: 53.8005 / 53°48'1"N
Longitude: -1.5505 / 1°33'1"W
OS Eastings: 429701
OS Northings: 433890
OS Grid: SE297338
Mapcode National: GBR BHK.HF
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4QXV
Plus Code: 9C5WRC2X+5Q
Entry Name: Britannia Buildings
Listing Date: 22 March 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375376
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466272
ID on this website: 101375376
Location: 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 St George
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
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LEEDS
SE2933NE OXFORD PLACE
714-1/75/276 (West side)
22/03/74 No.4
Britannia Buildings
GV II
Offices. 1868. Probably by Charles Fowler. Brick, English
bond, slate roof. Gothic Revival style.
3 storeys over basement; 3 bays with 3:2:3 1st-floor windows.
Central entrance with original panelled doors and pointed arch
with paired attached columns and carved name: 'BRITANNIA
BUILDINGS' over. Fenestration: slender columns with foliate
caps support stone pointed arches; plate-glass sashes slightly
recessed, 2-lights to centre and 3-lights to either side.
Gables over end bays with small quatrefoil openings, similar
piercing to short centre parapet which projects over a small
canopy between the centre window, possibly a statue plinth.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Fowler was an engineer and surveyor
who published a plan of Leeds in 1819. By 1845 he was
described as an architect at No.17 Commercial Street (qv) and
from 1867 his firm was in Britannia Buildings, probably
designed by him.
Considered to be the first purpose-built block of office
chambers in Leeds, (Victorian Society Walks).
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
1978-: 376; Victorian Society Walk No.4: Douglas, J & Powell,
K: Leeds: Four Architectural Walks, 3rd Edition: 1988-: 16).
Listing NGR: SE2970133890
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