Numbers 39 and 40 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, PARK SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375458
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 39 and 40 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, PARK SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375458
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 39 and 40 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, 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:
- NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, 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 29614 33760
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE PARK SQUARE 714-1/75/323 (North side) 19/10/51 Nos.39 AND 40 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PARK SQUARE (North side) Nos.39 AND 40)
GV II
Pair of houses, now offices, with area railings. 1793, altered C19. By Thomas Johnson. Red brick, Flemish bond, slate roof, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 6 bays, a mirrored pair. Bays 1 and 6: steps up to panelled door with fanlight in stone surround with consoles, fluted entablature and cornice. Sashes, plate glass to ground and 1st floors, 6-pane to 2nd floor, stone sills, rubbed brick flat arches. Stone band at 1st-floor level. High eaves with wooden brackets, end stacks. INTERIOR: No.39 (left) reputed to contain ground-floor room with dentilled cornice, open-well stairs, plain banisters, column newel, moulded handrail, round-arched stair window facing rear; No.40 is now part of a single office complex extending to and including No.44 (qv), it has a staircase with plain balusters and column newel. Part of the later stage of development in Park Square on land leased by Johnson from the Wilson estate. Thomas Johnson was an important architect/builder and property owner in the later C18, his surviving work includes William Hey's house in Commercial Street and the Leeds Library. (Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 148).
Listing NGR: SE2961433760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466354
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 148
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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