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Latitude: 53.7989 / 53°47'56"N
Longitude: -1.553 / 1°33'10"W
OS Eastings: 429537
OS Northings: 433714
OS Grid: SE295337
Mapcode National: GBR BGK.ZZ
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.3SQ2
Plus Code: 9C5WQCXW+HQ
Entry Name: Number 26 and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375449
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466345
ID on this website: 101375449
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
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
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