Description

LEEDS

SE2932NE FOUNDRY STREET, Holbeck
714-1/80/837 (East side)
25/08/87 Former machine and fitting shops for
Fenton, Murray and Wood, engineers
(Formerly Listed as:
FOUNDRY STREET
(East side)
Former foundry and attached
workshops)

GV II*

Fitting up shop, now motor radiator repair workshop. 1795-1802
with extension by 1841 and later alterations. For Matthew
Murray. Red/brown brick in irregular 1:5 English bond,
rendered and lined to Foundry Street frontage and on east side
of south end; slate roof; stepped brick gutter brackets and
skylights.
3 storeys, 9 first-floor windows with inserted vehicular
access cutting through the ground floor, right. A lower
3-storey, 3-window rendered block at the south end. East, yard
side: the rendered 3 bays on left have loading doors right.
The taller range has slightly cambered arches to windows, some
of which retain 16-pane frames; a full-height straight joint
between 6th and 7th windows, the window arches of headers to
left and stretchers to right of the joint. Glazed loading
doors, left, above vehicular access. Ground floor retains
traces of a blocked, round-arched opening to right of the C20
access and traces of another, taller opening to its left.
Floor levels marked by double row of rectangular sandstone
blocks; 4 long tie plates at 2nd-floor level.
INTERIOR: the southern 3 bays are iron-framed: columns support
beams on ground and first floors; there is an iron-framed
strong room built into the ground floor, south of the inserted
passage. The northern bays retain some jack arches.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this important range is part of Matthew
Murray's Round Foundry complex - the first and best surviving
fully integrated engineering works to be built and a major
Industrial Revolution site. In 1816 a boiler and steam engine
was installed at the north end of this range (later rebuilt)
and powered machinery for turning small lathes, grinding and
drilling the centre of wheels, tapping screws etc. The range
to south of the straight join is probably that shown on a map
of 1815; at that time there was a route between the fitting-up
shop and the foundry to the north, filled in by 1841. For
historical information: see No.101 Water Lane (qv).

(Netlam and Frances Giles: Plan of the Town of Leeds and its
Environs: 1815-; Grady, K: Temple Mill, Marshall Street,
Leeds. Civic Trust leaflet: 1989-; Kilburn Scott, E: Matthew
Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds: 1928-: 35).

Listing NGR: SE2961232872

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533962

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