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Latitude: 53.7993 / 53°47'57"N
Longitude: -1.5519 / 1°33'6"W
OS Eastings: 429614
OS Northings: 433760
OS Grid: SE296337
Mapcode National: GBR BHK.7V
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4R8R
Plus Code: 9C5WQCXX+P7
Entry Name: Numbers 39 and 40 and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 19 October 1951
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375458
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466354
ID on this website: 101375458
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
714-1/75/323 (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
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