Leeds Fire Brigade Memorial Approximately 10 Metres South of Woodhouse Cemetery Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Memorial.

Leeds Fire Brigade Memorial Approximately 10 Metres South of Woodhouse Cemetery Lodge

WRENN ID
endless-belfry-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1976
Type
Memorial
OS grid reference
SE 292 348
Coordinates
53.80925, -1.55665
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Leeds Fire Brigade Memorial, located approximately 10 meters south of Woodhouse Cemetery Lodge, was erected in 1892. It features a square stepped granite plinth topped with an obelisk. The memorial includes limestone carvings depicting a 19th-century horse-drawn fire engine and related equipment, with the obelisk surmounted by a helmet. The eastern front of the memorial lists those commemorated, including James Potter Schofield (1892), RW Horney (1896), Joseph Ellis (1897), and Herbert Storey (1909). The northern side honors Patrick Dunleavy (1922), Isaac Percival (1924), and Alfred Edward Waterhouse (1930).

Local climate

Leeds Fire Brigade Memorial Approximately 10 Metres South of Woodhouse Cemetery Lodge 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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