Devonshire House and Lion House
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE AND LION HOUSE, 37-41, YORK PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255619
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Devonshire House and Lion House
- Statutory Address:
- DEVONSHIRE HOUSE AND LION HOUSE, 37-41, YORK PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255619
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Devonshire House and Lion House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVONSHIRE HOUSE AND LION HOUSE, 37-41, YORK PLACE
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:
- DEVONSHIRE HOUSE AND LION HOUSE, 37-41, 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 29647 33515
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE YORK PLACE 714-1/75/462 (North side) Nos.37-41 (Consecutive) Devonshire House and Lion House
GV II
Woollen warehouses, now offices. 1870, converted C20. By George Corson. Ashlar, red brick with stone details, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. 4-storey, 3-window outer bays, 3-storey, 5-bay inner block. Outer bays have central panelled doors under a cusped stone hood surmounted by a carved lion left and a griffin right, and entries to rear yard with bracketed flat arches; ground-floor windows: paired cusped lights and wooden frames in square moulded stone recesses, a band of polychrome tiles below, continuous beaded cornice above. Upper-floor windows are paired flat-headed lights to outer bays, pointed arches centre. The centre block has full-height arched recesses with attached columns and pierced parapet with gargoyles; the outer bays have high bracketed eaves cornice and parapet with flanking stone-capped chimneys. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building links through to Nos 42-46 Park Place (qv) and has a very similar facade.
Listing NGR: SE2964733515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465841
- 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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