Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK PLACE
714-1/75/283 (North side)
26/09/63 Nos.5, 6 AND 7

GV II

Row of 3 houses, now offices. 1777, altered C19 and C20. By
William Lindley of Doncaster. For John Arthington, banker. Red
brick, slate roof.
3 storeys, the 3 houses form 1 unified composition, No.6 being
the central slightly projecting pedimented part. 3:5:3
windows. Ground floor: No.5 (right) has C20 door in original
entrance, 2 windows to right, all in an arcade of 3 arches
with stone impost bands; stone sills, lower wall rendered.
Arched entrance to No.7, left, also survives, the remainder
large C20 windows. 1st floor: 4-pane sashes and C20 casements,
the central window in a shouldered architrave with segmental
pediment, rubbed brick flat arches. 2nd floor: central house
has window in an architrave centre, moulded eaves cornice,
small-paned circular window in corniced pediment; the top
storey to Nos 5 & 7 is an addition. Projecting band at
1st-floor and 2nd-floor centre levels, continuous sill band to
1st-floor windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the Wilson estate development, the group was completed
by 1780 for Mrs Arthington, widow; No.6 was the vicarage of St
Peter's Church by 1831. William Lindley was the architect of
Denison Hall (qv) and he designed a vestibule with curved
walls and niches for Mrs Arthington's, Park Place similar to
that at the Hall.
(Fowler, C: Map of the town of Leeds and the Environs: 1831-;
Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During
Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 158; Yorkshire
Archaeological Journal, Vol 63: Taylor, A: Denison Hall,
Leeds; a postscript to Richard Hewlings: 1991-: 220-221).

Listing NGR: SE2965733578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656186

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