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Number 41 and Attached Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7993 / 53°47'57"N

Longitude: -1.5517 / 1°33'5"W

OS Eastings: 429627

OS Northings: 433758

OS Grid: SE296337

Mapcode National: GBR BHK.8V

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.4RCR

Plus Code: 9C5WQCXX+P8

Entry Name: Number 41 and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 19 October 1951

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375459

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466355

ID on this website: 101375459

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

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Description



LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK SQUARE
714-1/75/324 (North side)
19/10/51 No.41
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK SQUARE
(North side)
No.41)

GV II

House, now offices, with basement railings. 1796, altered C19.
For Thomas Bolland. Red brick, Flemish bond, slate roof,
wrought-iron railings.
2 storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays, the central 3
pedimented bays break forward slightly. Steps up to central
panelled door with fanlight in stone surround with
three-quarter Tuscan columns, entablature, cornice and
pediment. Flanking and 1st-floor plate-glass sashes, stone
sills, rubbed-brick flat arches, sill band to 1st floor
centre. Dentilled eaves cornice, oval window in tympanum, end
stacks.
INTERIOR: Nos 40-44 (qv) are now a single office complex with
interconnecting doors. Contemporary rooms with panelled walls
and fireplaces, open-well staircase with knopped column on
vase balusters and probably later square-section newels with
segmental pedimented finials rises to 2nd storey.
Part of the development of the Wilson estate as houses and
cloth finishing workshops for the wealthy merchants of the
town who wanted to leave the congested medieval centre. Thomas
Bolland was an attorney and clerk to the lieutenancy meetings,
Upperhead Row; in 1826 Christopher Bolland was a solicitor at
this address.
Railings: vase finials to standards, knobbed finials to bars.
(Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During
Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 165; Directory of Leeds,
1807, 1826).


Listing NGR: SE2962733758

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