Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE PARK ROW
714-1/75/300 (West side)
08/10/70 Nos.31 AND 32
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROW
(West side)
Nos.31 AND 32
Lloyds Bank)

GV II

Includes: Greek Street Chambers GREEK STREET.
Bank, chambers and porter's lodge. 1898, altered C20. By
Alfred Waterhouse. Polished grey granite to ground floor, red
brick and yellow terracotta to upper floors, slate and lead
roof. In Free Renaissance styles. An island site with Greek
Street on north and Russell Street on south.
3 storeys and attics, 5 bays wide, central segmental
pedimented doorway with Ionic columns and large mullion and
transom windows in moulded architraves with wide flat
pilasters between which are carried up to eaves. Mullion
windows and moulded panels to 1st and 2nd floors. End bays
project slightly and have segmental pediment on columns to
2nd-floor windows. The right corner has a rectangular tower
with colonnade in antis and tall pyramidal roof, left corner
lacks colonnade storey (see extra information, below); parapet
and dormer windows between.
Left return: 3 bays with detailing as front; to left a low
2-storey, 3-bay former porter's lodge with central
round-arched entrance, 3-light windows, moulded panels and
central eaves gable. Right return: entrance to Greek Street
Chambers right has Ionic pillars, round arch, entablature and
cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Built as a bank for William Williams, Brown & Co; the faience
tiles in the banking hall, made by the Leeds Fireclay Company
of Burmantofts, are reputed to remain under later remodelling,
(Linstrum). Waterhouse's original design, with symmetrical
pinnacled corner towers, is dated 30 November 1894 and the
'New Bank in Park Row' with elaborate railings and patterned
chimneys, was illustrated in 'The Builder', 19 December 1896.
The porter's lodge contained living room, scullery and 3
bedrooms.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
1978-: 24; The Builder; M. Bottomley (Leeds Planning Dept).

Listing NGR: SE2991533638

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656228

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)