Description

LEEDS

SE2932NE FOUNDRY STREET, Holbeck
714-1/80/834 (West side)
25/08/87 Nos.12 AND 14
Former workshop range of Fenton,
Murray and Jackson
(Formerly Listed as:
FOUNDRY STREET
(West side)
Former foundry workshop range)

GV II

Foundry workshops, now small industrial and storage premises.
1797 onwards, with extensive rebuilding 1847-77. For Matthew
Murray. Brown brick, English garden wall and random bonds,
white painted; slate roofs.
A row of 3 different builds, opening onto Foundry Street and
abutted at the rear by former saw mill and joiners' shop (qv).
North range: 6 tall multi-pane windows with cambered brick
arches; 2 flat-arched windows to left end; 1 narrow and 1 wide
doorway, 2 altered openings to far right. Heavy stone
projecting band at raised door sill height and a higher stone
window sill band. Gutter brackets.
An infill block at the north end abuts No.105 Water Lane and
has 2 altered multipane windows with curved brick surrounds
and a blocked doorway.
Middle range: 5 windows: a pair (one blocked) of domestic type
with one surviving 16-pane sash in flush wood frame, wedge
lintel; 3 tall multi-pane with cambered and flat brick arches.
2 doorways with raised sills; a short section of stone sill
band and a change in the brick coursing to left of the
right-hand door.
South range: 8 original multi-pane, header brick cambered
arched windows, 2 blocked; 3 segmental brick-arched double
doorways, the left doorway with plank double doors and
pedestrian entrance. 3 windows to left, one altered to
doorway; first-floor loading door below double header-brick
arch and steps to left. This 3-window range (No.14) extends
back approximately 3 bays and is roofed at right angles to the
road.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built from 1797 as part of his engineering
complex, Matthew Murray developed the site as a production
line for the manufacture of machine tools and steam engines of
all types. The north range housed the turning and boring shops
which contained cylinder borers of particular accuracy; the
steam engine used to power the machines was housed at the
south end, this function possibly shown by the 2
straight-headed windows. The central range contained (right to
left) the boiler house, an arched entry to the rear joinery
yard and a store; the straight join and stop in the stone band
suggests the position of the entry, while the sash window
indicates the store rooms. The south range was the pattern
shop. The brickwork suggests that the range was altered and
rebuilt from the mid C19, on the original wall lines.
For further historical information: see No.101 Water Lane
(qv).
(Kilburn Scott, E: Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds:
1928-: 35, 48).

Listing NGR: SE2959532873

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656265

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