68-72, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Cottage, shop. 3 related planning applications.
68-72, The Square
- WRENN ID
- under-pillar-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- 68-72, The Square, Harewood, LS17 9LQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 321 450
- Coordinates
- 53.90054, -1.51266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of six estate workers' cottages, now four dwellings and a shop, was likely built in the early 19th century by Peter Atkinson for Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood. The cottages are constructed from punch-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. They have a symmetrical facade of twelve bays, with three bays projecting as wings, featuring quoined angles and hipped roofs with side entrances. Doorways are located in bays 3, 5, 8, and 10, and possess ashlar jambs and lintels with chamfered surrounds. Ground-floor windows have monolithic lintels and flush sills, with some retaining original 16-pane Yorkshire sash windows. First-floor windows are square with 12-pane Yorkshire sashes, some of which have been altered. The symmetry of the row has been disrupted by a projecting shop window added in bay 9 and a blocked window in bay 12. Three ridge stacks are located on the main range. The left and right returns incorporate a central doorway, acting as a lobby-entry against a stack, flanked by windows to each floor, with Yorkshire small-pane sashes. Hipped roofs are topped by central ridge stacks. The row is designed to complement numbers 73-77, which are older buildings.
Local climate
68-72, The Square receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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