Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK ROW
714-1/75/294 (East side)
05/08/76 No.18
Abtech House
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROW
(East side)
No.18)

GV II

Offices. Late C19, altered C20. By Edward J Dodgshun. Ashlar
and carved stone, rebuilt slate roof.
4 storeys and added attic, 4 bays. Ground floor: facade
possibly refronted with geometric relief pattern; projecting
entrances left and right, deep frieze above has finely-carved
figures in deep relief including central seated female figure
with globe and staff of Mercury flanked by colonial trading
scenes; projections over the end doorways have cartouches with
shield and motto, flanked by draped figures; egg-and-dart
moulding over. 1st-floor windows have cartouches between, with
carvings of dove with olive branch, owls and cross, sailing
ship and Agnus Dei; dentilled string above. 2nd- and 3rd-floor
fluted Corinthian pilasters with heavy modillion cornice
above. End stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1881 No.18 Park Row was the premises of
the North of England Mercantile Agency, Peyton and Co were the
agents and accountants; Daniel Dodgson, architect, RC
Thackwray, portmanteau manufacturer and M Cranswick, solicitor
also used the building. EJ Dodgshun was the designer of the
West Riding Union Bank in Park Row (not included), built c1900
(Linstrum p.376) and Directories show that by 1905 the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank (formerly the West Riding Union
Banking Company) used the premises together with FJ Sharr,
architect and engineer and Oliver and Dodgshun, architects and
surveyors.
(Directories of Leeds, 1881 and 1905-6; Linstrum, D: West
Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SE2995033709

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Abtech House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26656214

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