105, WATER LANE

LEEDS

SE2932NE WATER LANE, Holbeck 714-1/80/859 (South side) No.105

GV II

Office. Dated 1870, altered C20. for Smith, Beacock and Tannett, Machine Tool Manufacturers. White-painted brick, slate roof; deep bracketed eaves, hipped roof on corner, short brick stack to right. Single storey, 4 round-headed windows to Water Lane, 1 to Foundry Street. In Italianate style. Ornate datestone with initials SBT and date above corner entrance with panelled 2-leaf door in moulded brick surround carried around the building as window arches on projecting impost band. INTERIOR: not inspected. On the site of a house at the entrance to Matthew Murray's Round Foundry works (qv), his business having closed in 1843. Later the works was renamed the Victoria Foundry and gained a reputation for training draughtsmen and engineers. Among the 'scores' being trained in the later C19 were members of the Krupp family of German industrialists and armaments manufacturers. (Kilburn Scott E: Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds: 1928-: 82).

Listing NGR: SE2958632910