NUMBERS 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

9 AND 11, LEICESTER GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255895
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 9 AND 11, LEICESTER GROVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255895
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 9 AND 11, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBERS 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 5 AND 6, 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:: 9 AND 11, LEICESTER GROVE
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 5 AND 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 5 AND 6, 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 29890 34774

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE 714-1/72/32 (North East side) Nos.5 AND 6 and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Nos.9 AND 11 LEICESTER GROVE. Pair of houses with railings. 1831-1839, 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, 6-panel on right, with roundels in fanlight, wooden surround in keyed arch with imposts. Basement windows have segmental arches, 16 panes; upper windows sashes, with glazing bars to 1st floor, stone sills, flat brick arches. Large multi-flue stacks straddle ridge between properties. Rear: No.6 (right) retains original stair window. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings: wrought-iron, enclose basement area and flank steps, alternate wavy and straight rails, bud finials. One of the 3 pairs of houses built in the 2nd stage of the development of the terrace originally called Finsbury Square (Fowler 1831). The oval garden was made but the terrace on the S side was never built. (Beresford, M: East End, West End: the Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1: Leeds: 1988-: 344; Fowler, C: Map of the town of Leeds and the Environs: 1831-; Map of Leeds: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SE2989034774

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Legacy System number:: 465509
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.