Tannery Cottage and Attached Warehouse to South East of Highbury Works is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Warehouse, cottage.
Tannery Cottage and Attached Warehouse to South East of Highbury Works
- WRENN ID
- errant-marble-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Warehouse, cottage
- Address
- Tannery Cottage and Attached Warehouse to South East of Highbury Works, Green Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 283 369
- Coordinates
- 53.82843, -1.57025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tannery Cottage and the attached warehouse, located southeast of Highbury Works, were originally built in 1824 and 1844 for Thomas Martin. These structures are now vacant and have been repurposed from their original use as a paper works and cottages. The buildings are constructed of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and feature a hipped corrugated sheet roof with two stone stacks.
The two-storey cottage front on the west side has two blocked windows and two doors, which are partly obscured by a lean-to on the left. Above this, there are two more blocked windows. The north front includes a large central cart entrance with a sliding door, to the right of which is a blocked window and a casement window, followed by a gabled single-storey wing that has two shuttered windows. Above this wing, there are three boarded windows, and to the left, there is a boarded window with a two-light window above it. The cottage front also features two attached privies and two casement windows on each floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Originally, this paper works was built for Thomas Martin and later served as a storehouse for Samuel Smith's tannery, now known as Highbury Works.
Local climate
Tannery Cottage and Attached Warehouse to South East of Highbury Works receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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