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Water Works Meter House

A Grade II Listed Building in Weetwood, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.8299 / 53°49'47"N

Longitude: -1.5873 / 1°35'14"W

OS Eastings: 427262

OS Northings: 437149

OS Grid: SE272371

Mapcode National: GBR B76.PW

Mapcode Global: WHC95.LZCT

Plus Code: 9C5WRCH7+X3

Entry Name: Water Works Meter House

Listing Date: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255566

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465879

ID on this website: 101255566

Location: Far Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS16

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Weetwood

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Far Headingley St Chad

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



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SE23NE CHURCH WOOD AVENUE, Far Headingley
714-1/6/651 (North West side)
Water Works Meter House

II

Meter house. Built between 1905 and 1912. Rock-faced ashlar,
grey slate roof. A tall single-storey building in Gothic
Revival style set against the side of the filtration
reservoir. Central porch with pointed arch and paired board
doors, cornice and blocking course. Flanking arched 2-light
windows with hoodmoulds; angle buttresses, moulded stone
brackets support deep blocking course with arched recesses.
Hipped roof with glazed ventilation canopy, iron finials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
In 1905 seven filter beds in Weetwood treated the water from
the Washburn valley reservoirs; by 1912 there were 17 beds in
Headingley (Kelly), suggesting that this building dates from
the period when the filter beds were extended across Otley
Road. Water reached the town by gravitation or via North Lane
Pumping Station, North Lane, Headingley (qv).
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1905 and 1912).


Listing NGR: SE2726237149

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