Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK SQUARE
714-1/75/316 (West side)
26/09/63 No.27
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK SQUARE
(West side)
No.27)

GV II

House, now offices, with area railings. c1797, altered C19. By
John Cordingley, carpenter. Red brick, stone details, slate
roof, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 3
first-floor windows. Steps up to entrance left with stone
surround of Tuscan three-quarter columns, heavy entablature,
fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Sash windows with
stone sills and wedge lintels, 1st-floor sill band. Rear: bay
window.
INTERIOR: staircase with slender turned balusters and moulded
handrail.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings: bars with leaf finials.
Part of a row of houses, possibly all by John Cordingley,
built by 1806 as part of the development of land leased by the
Wilson estate for merchant housing.
(Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During
Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 474; Heaton, J: Plan of
the Town of Leeds with its Modern Improvements: 1806-).

Listing NGR: SE2953833721

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656249

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Recommended Books

• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)