Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings to Number 1
1 AND 3, LEICESTER GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255893
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings to Number 1
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 3, LEICESTER GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255893
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings to Number 1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 3, LEICESTER GROVE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 31, BLACKMAN LANE
- Statutory Address 3:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 1, 1 AND 2, BLENHEIM SQUARE
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:
- 1 AND 3, LEICESTER GROVE
- Statutory Address:
- 31, BLACKMAN LANE
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBER 1, 1 AND 2, 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 29912 34756
Details
LEEDS
SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE
714-1/72/30 (North East side)
Nos.1 AND 2
and attached railings to No.1
GV II
Includes: No.31 BLACKMAN LANE.
Includes: Nos.1 AND 3 LEICESTER GROVE.
Pair of houses, one with railings. 1831-39, altered C20.
Red/brown brick, Flemish bond, rubbed brick details, slate
roof.
3 storeys over basement, each house 3 windows wide, with
entrance right. Each has stone steps to panelled door with
roundels in fanlight, in wooden surround with keyed arch and
imposts. Basement windows have segmental arches, flat brick
arches and stone sills to upper floors. Restored 16-pane
sashes to 1st and 2nd floors right. Large multi-flue stacks
straddle ridge between properties. Railings to No.1 (right):
wrought-iron bars with top rail, enclosing basement and
flanking steps. Rear: (Leicester Grove) both houses have
original round-arched stair window with glazing bars. Right
return: a shop entrance and late C20 windows at front basement
level, on Blackman Lane.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the 2nd stage of the development first called Finsbury
Square (Fowler map 1831) which was completed by 1839; the oval
gardens were laid out but the S terrace was never built.
Originally had semicircular rear bay windows as survive at
No.3 (qv), see OS map 1847.
(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: SE2991234756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465501
- 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
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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