Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1986. Railway repair shop.
Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sentry-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South MP: Hilary Benn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1986
- Type
- Railway repair shop
- Address
- Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Wellington Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 288 332
- Coordinates
- 53.79486, -1.56291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former railway repair shop, built around 1847, is now used for commercial storage. It was designed by Thomas Grainger and John Bourne for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a slate and corrugated iron roof. It is a long, single-storey rectangular structure with bays defined by brick pilasters that rise to an eaves band. Each bay has a round-arched window, some of which still have early glazing while others are blocked, and all have projecting stone sills.
The north front includes a blocked doorway that once provided access to the canal side and features a taller, 20th-century projection with a corrugated iron roof. The left side of the building has three tall eaves stacks, skylights, and a hipped roof with two eaves stacks at the left end. The right side has short eaves stacks and a continuous ridge louvre, with a coping that separates it from the corrugated iron-roofed section on the far right. The left return mimics the style of the Roundhouse and has three bays, including a central blocked segmental-arched entrance, a cornice, and a blocking course.
Inside, the building features timber queen-post roof trusses. A water tower once stood to the east of the building and was linked to it. C19 and C20 additions are present but are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Former Railway Repair Shop Parallel to Leeds and Liverpool Canal 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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