Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel To Leeds And Liverpool Canal

LEEDS

SE2833 WELLINGTON ROAD 714-1/34/418 (East side) 19/06/86 Former railway repair shop parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal

GV II

Railway repair shop, now commercial storage premises. c1847. By Thomas Grainger (line engineer) and John Bourne (resident engineer) for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company. Brick with stone dressings, slate and corrugated iron roof. Long single-storey rectangular range. Bays defined by brick pilasters rising into eaves band. To each bay a round-arched window, some with early glazing surviving, others blocked, with projecting stone sills. North front has blocked doorway (which gave access to canal side) and is broken by a taller, C20, corrugated-iron roofed projection; range to left has 3 tall eaves stacks, skylights and roof hipped with 2 eaves stacks at left end; range to right has short eaves stacks, continuous ridge louvre and coping separating it from corrugated-iron roofed section to far right. Left return, in style of the Roundhouse (qv); 3 bays: central, blocked segmental-arched entrance; cornice, blocking course. C19 and C20 additions not of special interest. INTERIOR: timber queen-post roof trusses. A water tower formerly stood to the E of the building and was linked to it. (Fitzgerald, R: Railway Complex, Wellington Street. Report to Leeds City Council: 1985-; Leeds City Council, Department of Planning: Directors' Report, EDG/RMM Q202/2, 24 March 1986).

Listing NGR: SE2889133259