39 AND 40, HANOVER SQUARE
39 AND 40, HANOVER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256071
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, HANOVER SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 40, HANOVER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256071
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, HANOVER SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 AND 40, HANOVER 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:
- 39 AND 40, HANOVER 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 29038 33937
Details
LEEDS
SE2933 HANOVER SQUARE 714-1/35/201 (West side) 05/08/76 Nos.39 AND 40
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1823. By James Pigott Pritchett for George Rawson of Denison Hall (qv). Red brick, stone details, slate roof. 3 storeys over basement, 7 first-floor windows. Plinth. Glazed doors with overlights in architrave with console brackets supporting cornice. Fenestration: sashes with glazing bars, some modern replacements; apron panels to ground floor, deep sill band to 1st floor, stone sills to 2nd floor. Central 2nd-floor window to No.39 now blocked. Eaves cornice, end stacks and between properties. INTERIOR: not inspected. In 1823 George Rawson sold the Denison Hall grounds, having commissioned James Pritchett to design housing for Hanover Square. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 383).
Listing NGR: SE2903833937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465284
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 383
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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