GREEK STREET CHAMBERS

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
List Entry Name:: GREEK STREET CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: 31 AND 32, PARK ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375428
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GREEK STREET CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: 31 AND 32, PARK ROW
Statutory Address 2:: GREEK STREET CHAMBERS, GREEK STREET

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:: 31 AND 32, PARK ROW
Statutory Address:: GREEK STREET CHAMBERS, GREEK STREET

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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

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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.