Victoria Buildings

LEEDS

SE2736NE MOOR ROAD, Far Headingley 714-1/59/660 (North side) 05/08/76 No.1 Victoria Buildings (Formerly Listed as: MOOR ROAD, Far Headingley No.1)

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Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 Victoria Buildings ROWLING PLACE Far Headingley. Includes: No.14 Victoria Buildings WEETWOOD LANE Far Headingley. Also known as: Moor Road Works MOOR ROAD Far Headingley. Corner shop and offices. Dated 1841. Coursed squared dressed gritstone, slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 windows, angled corner bay. Central 6-panel door with 4-pane overlight, plain lintel. 16-pane sashes to ground floor right and 1st floor; square 4-pane shop window left, low 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. 8-flue stacks straddle ridge centre and right, the latter corniced. Left return, to Weetwood Lane: the splayed angle has shop door to ground floor and blind window above with the inscription on lintel: 'VICTORIA BUILDINGS/ 1841'. 3 storeys, 3 sashes with glazing bars, gable over. Rear, to Rawling Place: 2 fielded-panel doors with overlights, sashes with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. Small plots on Headingley Moor were offered for sale in 1831; this development was on an important corner site and was possibly built as shop and houses. (The Rise of Suburbia, Thompson FML: Treen, C: The process of suburban development in North Leeds 1870-1914: 1982-: 164; Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SE2760836968