Number 21 and Attached Railings

NUMBER 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21, YORK PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255615
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:
Number 21 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21, YORK PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255615
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Number 21 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21, YORK PLACE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 21 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 21, YORK PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 29506 33518

Details

LEEDS

SE2933NE YORK PLACE 714-1/75/459 (South side) 05/08/76 No.21 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: YORK PLACE (South side) No.21)

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House, now offices, with basement railings. Early C19, altered C20. Red brick Flemish bond, stone details, slate roof with end stacks, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 5 bays. Central door with overlight in stone surround with pilasters, heavy entablature and cornice. Ground-floor windows in architrave with cornices and sills on shaped brackets; 1st-floor sashes with glazing bars, painted brick flat arches, continuous sill band; 2nd floor: C20 frames, stone sills, recessed panels between 1st- and 2nd-floor windows. Rear: a central semicircular stair bay with round-arched window. Basement railings: acorn finials to standards, pointed rails. INTERIOR: not inspected. Maps suggest that the row was built between 1834 and 1850. No.21 was the premises of Philip Dews, woollen manufacture in 1870, by 1886 the building was a warehouse for wool and other items. (Rapkin, J: Map of Leeds: 1850-; Directory of Leeds, 1870).



Listing NGR: SE2950633518

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465837
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Sources

Books and journals
Directory of Leeds, (1870)

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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