Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK ROW
714-1/75/295 (East side)
05/08/74 Nos.19 AND 20

GV II

Bank and chambers. Dated 1891, restored C20. By Alfred
Waterhouse. Polished pink granite ground floor, banded pink
brick and terracotta details above, patterned slate roof.
Facade only survives.
4 storeys with attic, 8 bays: wide 3-window entrance in bay 4
flanked by 2-window bays and, far right, the Chambers entrance
1-window wide. Pilaster strips at corners and between bays
rise to a modillion eaves cornice and parapet. Large
rusticated round-arch doorway centre in a slightly projecting
bay with paired pilasters and tripartite round arches, pierced
balcony parapet at 1st and 2nd floors, the 1st-floor balcony
is carried across the facade on large projecting curved stone
brackets; moulded frieze over 2nd floor, gabled dormer. Right
entrance is segmental-arched, date plaque above, 'MDCCCXCI';
at eaves a small turret with octagonal roof.
Fenestration: large round-arched windows to ground floor;
2-light mullion and transom windows in moulded architraves to
upper floors, lower part of 1st- and 2nd-floor mullions
removed, the upper part a small Jacobean-type fluted Ionic
column. Dormer windows front rebuilt roof with moulded stack
left.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Alfred Waterhouse, the principal architect for the Prudential
Assurance Company, developed an important partnership with the
Leeds Fireclay Company (then Wilcock and Co) of Burmantofts
following his work on the Yorkshire College building in 1883
and from that date his designs use their terracotta products.
(Bradford Art Galleries and Leeds City Museums: Burmantofts
Pottery: exhibition guide and catalogue: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SE2995733731

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656219

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