Number 41 And Attached Railings

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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)

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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