Numbers 39 And 40 And Attached Railings

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK SQUARE 714-1/75/323 (North side) 19/10/51 Nos.39 AND 40 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: PARK SQUARE (North side) Nos.39 AND 40)

GV II

Pair of houses, now offices, with area railings. 1793, altered C19. By Thomas Johnson. Red brick, Flemish bond, slate roof, wrought-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement, 6 bays, a mirrored pair. Bays 1 and 6: steps up to panelled door with fanlight in stone surround with consoles, fluted entablature and cornice. Sashes, plate glass to ground and 1st floors, 6-pane to 2nd floor, stone sills, rubbed brick flat arches. Stone band at 1st-floor level. High eaves with wooden brackets, end stacks. INTERIOR: No.39 (left) reputed to contain ground-floor room with dentilled cornice, open-well stairs, plain banisters, column newel, moulded handrail, round-arched stair window facing rear; No.40 is now part of a single office complex extending to and including No.44 (qv), it has a staircase with plain balusters and column newel. Part of the later stage of development in Park Square on land leased by Johnson from the Wilson estate. Thomas Johnson was an important architect/builder and property owner in the later C18, his surviving work includes William Hey's house in Commercial Street and the Leeds Library. (Beresford, M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 148).

Listing NGR: SE2961433760