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Latitude: 53.7852 / 53°47'6"N
Longitude: -1.536 / 1°32'9"W
OS Eastings: 430670
OS Northings: 432192
OS Grid: SE306321
Mapcode National: GBR BLQ.MX
Mapcode Global: WHC9L.C4T2
Plus Code: 9C5WQFP7+3J
Entry Name: Gateway and Flanking Walls to Former Railway Foundry
Listing Date: 2 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375478
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466376
ID on this website: 101375478
Location: Pottery Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Hunslet St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Gate
SE3032
714-1/43/872
02/09/96
LEEDS
PEARSON STREET, Hunslet
(South side)
Gateway and flanking walls to former Railway Foundry
GV
II
Archway and flanking walls. Probably 1846-50. For EB Wilson's
Railway Foundry. Ashlar arch with cast-iron corner plates, red
brick flanking walls. Wide basket arch, chamfered rustication,
impost blocks, massive voussoirs, moulded cornice and
entablature.
Flanking walls originally the outer walls of the works' north
courtyard range, extending approx 50m overall and parallel to
the south range; 2 storeys reduced to 1, segmental-arched
blocked windows, stone sills.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Charles Todd established the Railway Foundry
in a former mill, later the south range, in 1838; for early
history see Railway Foundry building (qv). The firm became EB
Wilson and Co in 1846 and the 1847 OS map shows the yard and
railway tracks leading through the gateway, across Pearson
Street and looping round in the area south of Dow Beck where
there were further buildings. Wilson's firm established the
concept of a production line for standardised locomotive
classes, the best known type built here being the 0-6-0 inside
cylinder double frame goods engine with 160 built. Throughout
the 1840s and 1850s the firm was the foremost locomotive
builder in Britain; at closure in 1858 it was the most
up-to-date locomotive works in the country. The estate was
bought by Hudswell Clarke and Co and locomotive building
continued, later becoming the Hunslet Engine Company, No.125
Jack Lane (qv).
(Redman RN: The Railway Foundry, Leeds 1829-1969: Norwich:
1972-).
Listing NGR: SE3067032192
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