NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, PARK SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375461
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, PARK SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375461
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, 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:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, 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 29643 33754

Details

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK SQUARE 714-1/75/325 (North side) 19/10/51 No.42 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PARK SQUARE (North side) No.42)

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House, now offices, with area railings. 1793, altered C19. By John Cordingley, master carpenter. Red brick, Flemish bond, slate roof, wrought-iron railings. 2 storeys with basement and attic; 4 bays with 1:1:3:1 windows, symmetrical facade with extra bay to left, pedimented 3-window part. Central panelled door with fanlight, three-quarter Tuscan columns, open pediment. Plate-glass sashes, stone sills, painted lintels, sill band to 1st floor centre. Dentilled eaves cornice and pediment with round window in tympanum. INTERIOR: now part of an office complex extending from Nos 40-44 (qv); retains fine staircase with knopped column on vase balusters of 2 straight flights rising to first floor, round-arched stair window; also reputed to contain ground floor left panelled walls and fine moulded cornice, bolection moulded fireplace; ground floor right panelled walls, cornice, round-arched alcove, fine fireplace; ground floor rear room with fireplace with elliptical pilasters, and landing with round arches and fluted jambs. Railings: plain, bud finials. John Cordingley also built Nos 26 & 27 Park Square (qqv); in 1799 he sold this house for »1500. (Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 158).

Listing NGR: SE2964333754

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Legacy System number:: 466357
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 158

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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.