Athenaeum House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Shop, office. 12 related planning applications.
Athenaeum House
- WRENN ID
- secret-banister-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1974
- Type
- Shop, office
- Address
- Athenaeum House, 147-157, the Headrow, LS1 5RB
- OS grid reference
- SE 298 337
- Coordinates
- 53.79944, -1.54846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Athenaeum House is a building located in Leeds, constructed around 1890 and altered in the 20th century. Designed by William Bakewell, it features a Gothic Revival style and is built from ashlar with a slate roof. The structure stands four storeys tall with an attic and consists of six bays.
On the ground floor, there is an arcade of four wide Tudor arches, modern shop windows, an entrance to the staircase for the upper floors on the left, and a carriageway on the right. The first, second, and third floors are adorned with canted bay windows that include mullions and transoms. The first and sixth bays extend up to attic pavilions, which have steeply-pitched hipped roofs topped with finials. The second to fifth bays feature four-light windows with traceried heads on the first and third floors and transoms on the second floor. Between the windows on the second floor, there are canopied niches that contain tall carved figures dressed in robes. The building is finished with a bracketed eaves cornice and a balustraded parapet situated between the end pavilions. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Athenaeum House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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