Greek Street Chambers
31 AND 32, PARK ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375428
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Greek Street Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- 31 AND 32, PARK ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375428
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Greek Street Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 AND 32, PARK ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- GREEK STREET CHAMBERS, GREEK STREET
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:
- 31 AND 32, PARK ROW
- Statutory Address:
- GREEK STREET CHAMBERS, GREEK STREET
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 29915 33638
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE PARK ROW
714-1/75/300 (West side)
08/10/70 Nos.31 AND 32
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROW
(West side)
Nos.31 AND 32
Lloyds Bank)
GV II
Includes: Greek Street Chambers GREEK STREET.
Bank, chambers and porter's lodge. 1898, altered C20. By
Alfred Waterhouse. Polished grey granite to ground floor, red
brick and yellow terracotta to upper floors, slate and lead
roof. In Free Renaissance styles. An island site with Greek
Street on north and Russell Street on south.
3 storeys and attics, 5 bays wide, central segmental
pedimented doorway with Ionic columns and large mullion and
transom windows in moulded architraves with wide flat
pilasters between which are carried up to eaves. Mullion
windows and moulded panels to 1st and 2nd floors. End bays
project slightly and have segmental pediment on columns to
2nd-floor windows. The right corner has a rectangular tower
with colonnade in antis and tall pyramidal roof, left corner
lacks colonnade storey (see extra information, below); parapet
and dormer windows between.
Left return: 3 bays with detailing as front; to left a low
2-storey, 3-bay former porter's lodge with central
round-arched entrance, 3-light windows, moulded panels and
central eaves gable. Right return: entrance to Greek Street
Chambers right has Ionic pillars, round arch, entablature and
cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Built as a bank for William Williams, Brown & Co; the faience
tiles in the banking hall, made by the Leeds Fireclay Company
of Burmantofts, are reputed to remain under later remodelling,
(Linstrum). Waterhouse's original design, with symmetrical
pinnacled corner towers, is dated 30 November 1894 and the
'New Bank in Park Row' with elaborate railings and patterned
chimneys, was illustrated in 'The Builder', 19 December 1896.
The porter's lodge contained living room, scullery and 3
bedrooms.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
1978-: 24; The Builder; M. Bottomley (Leeds Planning Dept).
Listing NGR: SE2991533638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 24
The Builder in The Builder, (1896)
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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