68-72, THE SQUARE
68-72, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226656
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 68-72, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 68-72, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226656
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 68-72, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 68-72, THE SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 68-72, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Harewood
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3212045039
Details
SE3245
14/156
30.3.66
HAREWOOD LS17
THE SQUARE
(north side)
Nos 68-72 (consec)
GV
II
Row of 6 estate workers' cottages, now 4 dwellings and a shop. Early C19 probably by
Peter Atkinson for Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. Punch-dressed stone,
stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 12 x 3 bay symmetrical facades. Outer 2 bays
projecting wings with quoined angles and hipped roofs with side entrances.
Doorways in bays 3, 5, 8 and 10 have ashlar composite jambs and lintels with
chamfered surrounds. Windows have monolithic lintels and flush sills some
retaining 16-pane Yorkshire sashes. 1st-floor windows square with 12-pane
Yorkshire sashes. Some have altered glazing. Symmetry much disturbed by added
projecting shop window in bay 9 and blocked window in bay 12. 3 ridge stacks
to main range. Left and right returns have central doorway (lobby-entry against
stack) flanked by windows to each floor all with Yorkshire small-pane sashes.
Hipped roofs with central ridge stacks.
The row complements Nos 73-77 (consec) which are earlier.
Listing NGR: SE3212045039
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424055
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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