Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE YORK PLACE
714-1/75/462 (North side)
Nos.37-41 (Consecutive)
Devonshire House and Lion House

GV II

Woollen warehouses, now offices. 1870, converted C20. By
George Corson. Ashlar, red brick with stone details, slate
roof. Gothic Revival style.
4-storey, 3-window outer bays, 3-storey, 5-bay inner block.
Outer bays have central panelled doors under a cusped stone
hood surmounted by a carved lion left and a griffin right, and
entries to rear yard with bracketed flat arches; ground-floor
windows: paired cusped lights and wooden frames in square
moulded stone recesses, a band of polychrome tiles below,
continuous beaded cornice above. Upper-floor windows are
paired flat-headed lights to outer bays, pointed arches
centre. The centre block has full-height arched recesses with
attached columns and pierced parapet with gargoyles; the outer
bays have high bracketed eaves cornice and parapet with
flanking stone-capped chimneys.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The building links through to Nos 42-46 Park Place (qv) and
has a very similar facade.

Listing NGR: SE2964733515

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547197

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)