Description

LEEDS

SE2933 HANOVER SQUARE
714-1/35/200 (West side)
05/08/76 Nos.37 AND 38

GV II

Semi-detached pair of houses. c1823. Probably by James Piggott
Pritchett. For George Rawson. Red brick, stone details, slate
roof. 3 storeys with basement, 6 first-floor windows. Steps up
to central paired doors in large shallow portico of 2 pairs of
Tuscan columns supporting heavy entablature, cornice and
blocking course. Fenestration: flat brick arches, mostly
sashes with glazing bars; panelled aprons to ground floor,
deep sill band to 1st, stone sills to 2nd. Moulded eaves
cornice, end stacks.
INTERIOR: Nos 37 and 38 both have entrance hall with Moorish
tiled dado and elaborate plasterwork in Moorish style.
George Rawson was the owner of Denison Hall and in 1823 James
Pritchett designed the layout of Hanover Square for Rawson who
was selling the grounds for housing development.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-: 383).

Listing NGR: SE2903833930

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547616

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