Broadcasting House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Studio, meeting house. 8 related planning applications.
Broadcasting House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-corbel-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Studio, meeting house
- Address
- Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 298 344
- Coordinates
- 53.80567, -1.54859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Broadcasting House, formerly known as Friends' Meeting House, is a Quaker meeting house that has been converted into studios. It was built between 1866 and 1868 by Edward Birchall and features a classical style. The building is constructed of ashlar with a slate roof and has two storeys with five by six bays. The ground floor projects outward and includes a central entrance flanked by Tuscan columns that support an entablature with an arcaded pediment. There is a round arch doorway and two windows on each side of the entrance. The first floor has plate-glass sash windows set in moulded architraves, topped with cornice hoods on console brackets. The building is adorned with a modillion cornice and a large pediment that features a round window, with squat rusticated chimneys at the corners. The interior has not been inspected. The area where the building is located is known as Carlton Hill.
Local climate
Broadcasting 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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