9 AND 10, BLENHEIM SQUARE, 17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE

17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255875
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 9 AND 10, BLENHEIM SQUARE, 17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address:: 17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255875
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 9 AND 10, BLENHEIM SQUARE, 17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address 1:: 17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address 2:: 9 AND 10, BLENHEIM SQUARE

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:: 17 AND 19, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address:: 9 AND 10, BLENHEIM SQUARE

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 29868 34792

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE 714-1/72/34 (North East side) Nos.9 AND 10

GV II

Includes: Nos.17 AND 19 LEICESTER GROVE. Pair of houses. 1822-31, altered C20. Red/brown brick, Flemish bond, rubbed brick details, slate roof. Each house of 3 storeys over basement and 3 windows wide with entrance right. Steps up to door with fanlight with glazing bars in plain stone surround with keyed brick arch and imposts. Segmental arches to basement windows, stone sills and flat brick arches to upper floors, frames replaced. Large multi-flue stack straddles ridge, centre. Rear: both houses retain original round-arched stair window with glazing bars and have a shallow bow window with replaced frames. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of the first stage of the development of Finsbury Square (Fowler's map 1831) which was the completion of 8 houses (Nos 7-14); the oval garden was made but the S side was never built. (Beresford M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 344; Fowler C: Map of the town of Leeds and the Environs: 1831-; Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).

LEEDS

SE2934NE LEICESTER GROVE 714-1/72/34 (South side) Nos.17 AND 19

GV II

See under: Nos.9 AND 10 BLENHEIM SQUARE.

Listing NGR: SE2986834792

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Legacy System number:: 465516
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 344

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