BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS KINGS HOUSE

BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52 AND 54, WELLINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255735
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS KINGS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52 AND 54, WELLINGTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255735
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS KINGS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52 AND 54, WELLINGTON STREET
Statutory Address 2:: KINGS HOUSE, 1 AND 3, KING STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BLEMANN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 52 AND 54, WELLINGTON STREET
Statutory Address:: KINGS HOUSE, 1 AND 3, KING STREET

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 29673 33442

Details

LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET 714-1/77/431 (North side) Nos.52 AND 54 Blemann House and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 3 King's House KING STREET. Warehouse, now offices with basement railings. 1861 and 1870, converted C20. By George Corson for William Ledgard. Ashlar basement, rusticated to 1st floor, red brick with polychrome brick and stone details, slate roof. Venetian style. Corner site with King Street, 4 storeys over basement, 14 x 8 first-floor windows, the 3 to right and King Street left 2 windows in slightly projecting full-height corner block. Entrance left (No.54) has flanking columns with foliate capitals supporting rusticated round arch with roll moulding and deep cornice which is carried round the building as a continuous string. Arched windows, possibly inserted doorway centre, corner entrance far right with column and pilasters, cornice over, rebuilt. Upper floors have flat, segmental and round arched windows with 4-pane sashes, paired 3rd-storey windows have baluster shafts and circular opening in arcade of polychrome brickwork. Decorative band of zigzag brick work and plain ashlar between 1st and 2nd floors. Deep modillion eaves cornice. Right return: central arched entrance as main front, fenestration and decoration similar but sash windows to 3rd floor; on left a square 1-stage tower with 3 narrow round headed lights, bracketed eaves cornice, pyramid roof and banded chimney; a stepped stack with bracketed cornice straddles ridge, centre. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement railings: stone wall, geometric openwork panels between standards with pointed finials. One of the many warehouses built in the Wellington Street area, close to the railway stations built on the S side 1846-56. George Corson took over his brother's architectural practice in 1860 and the corner building, No.52 Wellington Street and Nos 1-3 King Street, is one of the first he designed, in a career which culminated in the Grand Theatre, Municipal Buildings and the School Board Offices (qv) in the late 1870s. No.54 was added in 1870. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-; Fraser, D (Ed): A History of Modern Leeds: Manchester: 1980-: 134).

Listing NGR: SE2967333442

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 465724
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fraser, D, A History of Modern Leeds, (1980), 134
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.