Numbers 3 And 4 And Attached Railings

LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM SQUARE 714-1/72/31 (North East side) Nos.3 AND 4 and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Nos.5 AND 7 LEICESTER GROVE. Pair of houses with railings. 1831-39, altered C20. Red/brown brick, Flemish bond, rubbed brick details, slate roof. Each house of 3 storeys over basement and 3 windows wide with entrance right. Steps up to doors with fanlight in wooden surround; keyed arch with imposts. Sash and casement windows, replaced frames, stone sills and brick flat arches. Large multiflue stack straddles ridge centre. Rear: No.3 (left) retains original stair window with glazing bars and semicircular bay window with three 16-pane sashes to ground floor, a good example of the character of all the houses in the row (OS map 1847). INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings: wrought-iron, enclosing basement and flank steps, bud finials. Part of the 2nd stage of the development of Finsbury Square as marked on Fowler's map (1831), with oval garden to front, the S terrace never built. (Beresford M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 344; Fowler C: Map of the town of Leeds and the Environs: 1831-; Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SE2989534769