Hunslet Engine Company Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1991. Offices. 1 related planning application.
Hunslet Engine Company Offices
- WRENN ID
- grey-rampart-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1991
- Type
- Offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LEEDS
SE3032 JACK LANE, Hunslet 714-1/43/845 (North side) 11/02/91 No.125 Hunslet Engine Company offices
GV II
Offices. Dated 1864 but probably 1880 or later. Brick, stretcher bond, grey slate hipped roof with deep eaves brackets, moulded brick stack forward of ridge, left. 2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, 2 of them circular. Panelled door in tall stone surround with small pane overlight, entablature and dentilled cornice with raised lettering: '1864/ THE HUNSLET ENGINE CO'. Narrow cross windows, some first-floor frames altered, stone sills and contrasting brick lintel with stepped keyblock; first-floor sill band. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Hunslet Engine Company was established in 1864 and continued the engineering business of EB Wilson who in turn had taken over the Railway Foundry of Charles Todd established in 1838 at the Pearson Street site (qv). Part of the important Hunslet area locomotive manufacturing centre in the later C19 and C20. (Rolt, LTC: A Hunslet Hundred: one hundred years of locomotive building ...: London: 1964-).
Listing NGR: SE3055432041
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