5, 6 AND 7, PARK PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375385
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: 5, 6 AND 7, PARK PLACE
Statutory Address:: 5, 6 AND 7, PARK PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375385
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: 5, 6 AND 7, PARK PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 5, 6 AND 7, PARK PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 5, 6 AND 7, PARK PLACE

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 29657 33578

Details

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK PLACE 714-1/75/283 (North side) 26/09/63 Nos.5, 6 AND 7

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Row of 3 houses, now offices. 1777, altered C19 and C20. By William Lindley of Doncaster. For John Arthington, banker. Red brick, slate roof. 3 storeys, the 3 houses form 1 unified composition, No.6 being the central slightly projecting pedimented part. 3:5:3 windows. Ground floor: No.5 (right) has C20 door in original entrance, 2 windows to right, all in an arcade of 3 arches with stone impost bands; stone sills, lower wall rendered. Arched entrance to No.7, left, also survives, the remainder large C20 windows. 1st floor: 4-pane sashes and C20 casements, the central window in a shouldered architrave with segmental pediment, rubbed brick flat arches. 2nd floor: central house has window in an architrave centre, moulded eaves cornice, small-paned circular window in corniced pediment; the top storey to Nos 5 & 7 is an addition. Projecting band at 1st-floor and 2nd-floor centre levels, continuous sill band to 1st-floor windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of the Wilson estate development, the group was completed by 1780 for Mrs Arthington, widow; No.6 was the vicarage of St Peter's Church by 1831. William Lindley was the architect of Denison Hall (qv) and he designed a vestibule with curved walls and niches for Mrs Arthington's, Park Place similar to that at the Hall. (Fowler, C: Map of the town of Leeds and the Environs: 1831-; Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 158; Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol 63: Taylor, A: Denison Hall, Leeds; a postscript to Richard Hewlings: 1991-: 220-221).

Listing NGR: SE2965733578

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Sources

Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 158
Taylor, A, 'Yorkshire Archaeological Journal' in Denison Hall Leeds; A Postscript To Richard Hewlings, (1991), 220-221
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Title: Plan of the town of Leeds Source Date: 1831 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

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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.