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9, Somers Street

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7992 / 53°47'57"N

Longitude: -1.5533 / 1°33'11"W

OS Eastings: 429519

OS Northings: 433747

OS Grid: SE295337

Mapcode National: GBR BGK.XW

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.3RLT

Plus Code: 9C5WQCXW+MM

Entry Name: 9, Somers Street

Listing Date: 21 February 1992

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256062

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465321

ID on this website: 101256062

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Leeds St George

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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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

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