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Latitude: 53.7977 / 53°47'51"N
Longitude: -1.5499 / 1°32'59"W
OS Eastings: 429742
OS Northings: 433585
OS Grid: SE297335
Mapcode National: GBR BHL.MD
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.5S6Y
Plus Code: 9C5WQFX2+32
Entry Name: Atlas House
Listing Date: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256123
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465244
ID on this website: 101256123
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: House
LEEDS
SE2933NE ST PAUL'S STREET
714-1/75/375 (South side)
Nos.1 AND 3
Atlas House
GV II
Includes: No.31 Atlas House KING STREET.
Insurance offices, now premises of the Bank of Ireland. 1910.
By William Perkin and George Bulmer. Faced in Marmo.
4 storeys with attics, 11-bay corner site arranged
1:2:1:3:1:2:1. Rusticated ground floor, segmental-arched
entrances and round-arched windows with masks representing
races of the world on keystones. Segmental pediments to
1st-floor windows, deep modillion cornice above 2nd floor,
triangular pediments to 3rd floor and attics. A richly-moulded
facade dominated by a figure of Atlas on the corner.
Perkin and Bulmer also designed the Scottish Union and
INTERIOR: not inspected.
National Insurance Co premises at Nos 26 & 27 Park Row (qv),
also faced in Marmo manufactured by the Burmantofts Company.
RCHME records show that the building is of fireproof
construction (Kahn system), contractors W Nicholson and Son,
sculpture models by Thewlis and Co, etc.
Listing NGR: SE2974233585
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