Hope Foundry Entrance Range And Hope House

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

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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