Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE SOMERS STREET
714-1/75/357 (East side)
21/02/92 No.9
(Formerly Listed as:
SOMER STREET
(East side)
No.9)

GV II

Also known as: No.30 Workshop/warehouse to rear PARK SQUARE
WEST.
Workshop, warehouse and offices. Late C18, altered C20. Dark
red brick, part rendered, slate roof.
A 3-storey, 5 x 2 window block, gable to street. Original
openings have segmental-arched heads. Street frontage rendered
and lined in imitation of ashlar; blocked loading door right,
a window directly above on first and 2nd floors, all with
segmental arches; pedestrian door to left, C20 door and
surround, square window directly above, 2nd floor.
Left return: C20 openings to ground floor; first and 2nd
floors: windows 1, 3, and 4 are wide, with segmental brick
arches, 1 and 4 have 3-light flush frames, those on top floor
are side-sliding sashes with glazing bars and are set just
below the eaves; window 2 on each floor similar but
square-headed. Window to far right, set at 2nd-floor level, is
wide, segmental-arched and the 3-light flush frame retains
glazing bars in upper third.
INTERIOR: reputed to have original roof structure of queen
posts clasping collar and one set of purlins, the tie beams
set above the windows, and a change in floor level between
front and rear of the building.
The building stands to the rear of No.30 Park Square West (qv)
and is the only surviving example of the type of commercial
premises contemporary with the gentleman merchants' housing
built on the Wilson estate between 1767 and c1820. Such
buildings were used by the merchants as warehouses, hot press
and packing shops where cloth bought at the Cloth Halls was
prepared for despatch. The style is similar to the
housing/workshops of the same date in Blayd's Yard, Briggate
(qv). Surviving doorways and fenestration suggest that goods
were loaded from the street, the upper windows possibly
altered loading doors, and workshops were towards the rear of
the building, well lit to first floor and within the roof
space at 2nd-floor level. Map evidence suggests that this was
the first structure built to the west of Park Square (Teal

plan 1793), the street frontage being built up after that
date.
(Beresford, M: East End, West End: Leeds 1684-1842: 131).

Listing NGR: SE2951933747

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547609

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)