Number 26 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 26 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, PARK SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375449
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Number 26 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 26 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, PARK SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375449
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Number 26 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 26 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, 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:
- NUMBER 26 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 26, 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:
- SE 29537 33714
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE PARK SQUARE 714-1/75/315 (West side) 26/09/63 No.26 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PARK SQUARE (West side) No.26)
GV II
House, now offices, with area railings. 1797. By John Cordingley, carpenter. Red brick, slate roof, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 3 windows wide. Steps up left to entrance with fielded-panelled door in wooden pilastered doorcase, fanlight and open pediment. Sash windows, stone sills and wedge lintels, continuous sill band 1st floor. End stacks. INTERIOR: important interior with many original features including doors and wall panels, original staircase with column newel, knopped column on vase balusters and ramped handrail. Round arches in hall and landing with guilloche moulding and fluted and panelled jambs. 2 ground-floor rooms connected by elliptical arch with panelled doors, original plaster ceilings with Adam-style motifs and dentilled cornices, fielded-panels to walls and fireplace with fluted Ionic columns. 1st-floor room reputed to contain panelling and fireplace. Some of the mouldings to the plasterwork are probably late C19 restorations. The most southerly of a row of 6 similar houses shown on Heaton's plan 1806, all perhaps by Cordingley. (Heaton, J: Plan of the Town of Leeds with its Modern Improvements: 1806-).
Listing NGR: SE2953733714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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