Number 26 And Attached Railings

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK SQUARE 714-1/75/315 (West side) 26/09/63 No.26 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PARK SQUARE (West side) No.26)

GV II

House, now offices, with area railings. 1797. By John Cordingley, carpenter. Red brick, slate roof, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 3 windows wide. Steps up left to entrance with fielded-panelled door in wooden pilastered doorcase, fanlight and open pediment. Sash windows, stone sills and wedge lintels, continuous sill band 1st floor. End stacks. INTERIOR: important interior with many original features including doors and wall panels, original staircase with column newel, knopped column on vase balusters and ramped handrail. Round arches in hall and landing with guilloche moulding and fluted and panelled jambs. 2 ground-floor rooms connected by elliptical arch with panelled doors, original plaster ceilings with Adam-style motifs and dentilled cornices, fielded-panels to walls and fireplace with fluted Ionic columns. 1st-floor room reputed to contain panelling and fireplace. Some of the mouldings to the plasterwork are probably late C19 restorations. The most southerly of a row of 6 similar houses shown on Heaton's plan 1806, all perhaps by Cordingley. (Heaton, J: Plan of the Town of Leeds with its Modern Improvements: 1806-).

Listing NGR: SE2953733714