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Latitude: 53.7988 / 53°47'55"N
Longitude: -1.5508 / 1°33'2"W
OS Eastings: 429686
OS Northings: 433709
OS Grid: SE296337
Mapcode National: GBR BHL.G0
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4SS3
Plus Code: 9C5WQCXX+GM
Entry Name: 8, Park Square
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375439
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466335
ID on this website: 101375439
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Leeds St George
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Building
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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