NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

25 AND 27, LEICESTER GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255877
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 25 AND 27, LEICESTER GROVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255877
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 25 AND 27, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 13 AND 14, 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:: 25 AND 27, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 13 AND 14, 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 29848 34810

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE 714-1/72/36 (North East side) Nos.13 AND 14 and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Nos.25 AND 27 LEICESTER GROVE. Pair of houses with railings. 1822-31, altered C20. Red/brown brick, Flemish bond, rubbed brick details, slate roof. 3 storeys over basement; each house 3 windows wide with entrance right. Steps up to door with fanlight in plain stone surround with keyed arch and imposts. Segmental-arched basement windows, upper-floor window frames replaced, stone sills and flat brick arches. Dentilled eaves; large multi-flue stacks straddle ridge between the properties. Rear: semicircular bow window encased in wood and frames replaced on left (No.13), round-arched stair window openings survive, frames replaced. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings: surviving on right (No.13), enclose basement and flank steps, rails and standards with flower finials. Part of the first stage of the Finsbury Square built between 1822 and 1831 and shown on Fowler's map, now Nos 7-14 Blenheim Square. The oval garden was made but the S side of the square 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-).

Listing NGR: SE2984834810

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Legacy System number:: 465518
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.