Number 56 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Office. 5 related planning applications.
Number 56 and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- wild-string-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Number 56 and Attached Railings, Wellington Street, LS1 2EE
- OS grid reference
- SE 296 334
- Coordinates
- 53.7965, -1.55135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 56 is an office building dated 1873, with alterations made in the 20th century. It was likely designed by Henry Walker for William Smith. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a slate roof, along with wrought-iron railings and a gate. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and consists of four storeys over a basement, featuring two uneven bays.
On the right side, there are panelled double doors set in a moulded pointed arch beneath a gable, which has two small Gothic windows and a quatrefoil opening. The canted bay rises to a turret topped with an octagonal spire and gargoyles. The wider left bay includes cross windows on the ground floor, paired flat-arched windows on the first and second floors, and three Gothic windows with two lights and plate tracery on the third floor. The gable is decorated with quatrefoil plaques and has an incised date, topped by a crocketed finial.
The interior has not been inspected. The basement features railings made of an ashlar wall with square panels of ironwork that have a central boss and circles, along with standards that have leaf finials.
Local climate
Number 56 and Attached Railings 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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