Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Railings
5 AND 7, LEICESTER GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255894
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 5 AND 7, LEICESTER GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255894
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5 AND 7, LEICESTER GROVE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 3 AND 4, 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:
- 5 AND 7, LEICESTER GROVE
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 3 AND 4, 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 29895 34769
Details
LEEDS
SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE
714-1/72/31 (North East side)
Nos.3 AND 4
and attached railings
GV II
Includes: Nos.5 AND 7 LEICESTER GROVE.
Pair of houses with railings. 1831-39, 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 doors with fanlight in wooden
surround; keyed arch with imposts. Sash and casement windows,
replaced frames, stone sills and brick flat arches. Large
multiflue stack straddles ridge centre. Rear: No.3 (left)
retains original stair window with glazing bars and
semicircular bay window with three 16-pane sashes to ground
floor, a good example of the character of all the houses in
the row (OS map 1847).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings: wrought-iron, enclosing
basement and flank steps, bud finials.
Part of the 2nd stage of the development of Finsbury Square as
marked on Fowler's map (1831), with oval garden to front, the
S terrace 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: SE2989534769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465505
- 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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