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Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings to Number 1

A Grade II Listed Building in Hyde Park and Woodhouse, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8082 / 53°48'29"N

Longitude: -1.5472 / 1°32'50"W

OS Eastings: 429912

OS Northings: 434756

OS Grid: SE299347

Mapcode National: GBR BJG.6M

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6JGW

Plus Code: 9C5WRF53+74

Entry Name: Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings to Number 1

Listing Date: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255893

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465501

ID on this website: 101255893

Location: Bagby Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Hyde Park and Woodhouse

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: St Martin, Potternewton with All Souls, Little London

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE
714-1/72/30 (North East side)
Nos.1 AND 2
and attached railings to No.1

GV II

Includes: No.31 BLACKMAN LANE.
Includes: Nos.1 AND 3 LEICESTER GROVE.
Pair of houses, one with railings. 1831-39, altered C20.
Red/brown brick, Flemish bond, rubbed brick details, slate
roof.
3 storeys over basement, each house 3 windows wide, with
entrance right. Each has stone steps to panelled door with
roundels in fanlight, in wooden surround with keyed arch and
imposts. Basement windows have segmental arches, flat brick
arches and stone sills to upper floors. Restored 16-pane
sashes to 1st and 2nd floors right. Large multi-flue stacks
straddle ridge between properties. Railings to No.1 (right):
wrought-iron bars with top rail, enclosing basement and
flanking steps. Rear: (Leicester Grove) both houses have
original round-arched stair window with glazing bars. Right
return: a shop entrance and late C20 windows at front basement
level, on Blackman Lane.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the 2nd stage of the development first called Finsbury
Square (Fowler map 1831) which was completed by 1839; the oval
gardens were laid out but the S terrace was never built.
Originally had semicircular rear bay windows as survive at
No.3 (qv), see OS map 1847.
(Beresford M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During
Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 344; Fowler C: Map of
the town of Leeds and the Environs: 1831-; Ordnance Survey Map
of Leeds: 1847-).


Listing NGR: SE2991234756

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