8, PARK SQUARE
8, PARK SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375439
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- 8, PARK SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 8, PARK SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375439
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- 8, PARK SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, PARK 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:
- 8, PARK 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:
- SE2968633709
Details
SE2933NE
714-1/75/308
26/09/63
LEEDS
PARK SQUARE
(East side)
No.8
GV
II
House. 1788-1789, with late C19 and late C20 alterations. By
William Hargrave. For William Wilson, gentleman. Red brick,
Flemish bond, slate roof.
3 storeys with attic and basement, 5 first-floor windows
spaced 2:1:2, the central 3 windows in a very slight
projection under a pediment with circular attic window in
tympanum. Central entrance with restored wooden doorcase:
rusticated jambs, elaborate fluted columns, segmental open
pediment, under the pediment old and well preserved woodwork
and ornamental festoon of stucco, semicircular fanlight and
fielded-panel door. Plate-glass sashes, stone sills and
lintels, wedge to ground and first floors, the 2nd-floor
window lintels raised and a moulded string between; modillion
eaves and pediment cornices.
INTERIOR: undergoing extensive alterations at time of review;
staircase entirely replaced. Ground-floor front rooms have C19
cast-iron fire grates in stone surrounds; fine round-arched
rear stair window with wooden pilastered casing; 1st-floor
landing has a wide round arch and 5 rooms opening off, moulded
ceiling cornices, panelled window reveals to front rooms.
Landing to 2nd floor has similar stair window in plainer
moulded surround, cast-iron round-arched fire grates in plain
stone surrounds; moulded cornices, service stair rear right
has C19 bulbous balusters, column on vase newels with ball
finials.
The centrepiece and one of the first houses on the east side
of Park Square, possibly for a member of the family whose
estate was leased out to architect/builders as plots for the
construction of houses, some with warehouses and workshops to
rear, for cloth merchants and professional people leaving the
congested town centre.
(Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During
Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 164).
Listing NGR: SE2968633709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 164
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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