More information : (SE 28783321. Sited from OS 1:1250 1979 and shown as
Works (NAT)).
WELLINGTON ROAD (EAST SIDE)
SE 2833 AND SE 2933
41/852 THE ROUNDHOUSE (LEEDS COMMERCIAL
VAN AND TRUCK RENTAL PREMISES)
II*
GV
2.
Engine house now garaging. Completed 1847. By Thomas Grainger
(line engineer) and John Bourne (resident engineer) for the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company. Red brick with stone dressings,
Slate roof. Single-storey polygon, annular in plan. Plinth;
pilasters defining bays rise into deep moulded cornice with
blocking course. Main entrance, in east side, has tall, elliptical-
arched doorway with incised, radiating voussiors and blocking course
pedimented above cornice. Each bay has paired round-headed windows
in recessed reveals with rubbed brick arches; some early glazing
survives but the windows are now mostly blocked; with some
alterations and inserted doorways. Skylights in roof which slopes
up to ridge louvre, the centre of the polygon originally open-
roofed. C20 additions not of interest. Interior: brick arcade
around centre formerly enclosed turntable (open to roof) and has
arches (originally with wooden doors) through which locomotives
would have passed from the turntable on to a stabling road and so
into a pit. Roof trusses, supported by arcade and by cast-iron
corbels at outer ends, have iron queen bolts and long diagonal
braces (tension members of cast iron, compression members of
timber). Roof underdrawn with boards in places. The engine house
was designed to accommodate up to 20 locomotives; it went out
of use when this site was superseded by a depot at Neville Hill.
Leeds Department of Planning Directors Report, EDG/RMM Q202/2,
24.3.86. (1)
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