8, PARK SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375439
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: 8, PARK SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 8, PARK SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375439
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: 8, PARK SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 8, PARK SQUARE

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:: 8, PARK SQUARE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 466335
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 164

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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.