(21) to a scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

21 as above, New Bond Street / North, Park Row, Contains / Basement / Ground Floor / One Pair / Two Pair / & Rooms in Roof, Yard belonging to Mess^rsSimpson, Warehouses &^c Belonging to Mess^rs Simpson Wool Merchants, D / 2., Vacant Ground / to be built on at / some future period, West, labelled: Door, Entrance Passage to Houses N^o 1 & N^o 2 / Brick Arch supporting / Ch^y breast to top of House, N^o II / M^r Hargrave Paperhanger, Shop 10' 11" high, Shop Window, Mahogany Sashes, Door, Paved with Stone, Staircase, Wood Steps, Stone Ch^y (3 times), Wall One Brick in Thickness, N^o III / Mr Petty Surgeon, Yard N^o III, Low Fence Wall, Dusthole &c (twice), Low Wall (twice), Yard N^o II, Yard N^o I, Steps from Basement, Arch, Stone, Step, Door, N^o 1 / Mr Hay Chemist &c / Shop, Mahogany Shop Window, external Wall one Brick in thickness and dimensions give 22 as above, Slate, Stone (twice) and a few dimensions given 23 as above and see Notes below

• (21) 7^th May 1827 (23) published Leeds, January 13^th, 1823

(21) Pen, sepia. green, yellow, brown madder, pink and blue washes within single ruled border on stout wove paper (537 x 367) (22) pen, sepia, brown madder, raw umber and blue washes on wove paper (200 x 278) (23) printed by Edward Baines, printer, Leeds on secretary paper with three fold marks (327 x 410)

(21, 22) George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Mr Makin's three-storey premises with basement and attics consists of two shops, a surgery and three yards on the corner of Park Row and New Bond Street, next to a site 'to be built on at some future date'. The building is 60 feet deep with a 50 feet frontage.
The prospectus relates to vacant sites in front of Park Row and has nine conditions and restrictions. Clauses I to III cover a 'common sewer', fencing and paving. Clause IV begins 'Every Building, to be erected, in the two new main Streets, of Twelve and Fourteen Yards wide, or fronting towards Park Row, South Parade, or East Parade, to be fronted with Stone of Tool'd Ashler, or red dressed Bricks ... and to be not less than Three Stories, and not less than Thirty Feet high from the ground floor'. Clause VI states that 'No Building to be erected to be made use of as or for a Dye-house, Slaughter-house, Distillery or Common Brewhouse ... or any other noisome or dangerous trade or calling'. Clauses VII and VIII deal with the title deeds and IX ends with 'Each Purchaser to pay a Deposit of 10 per cent. on signing the Contract.'

A Plan of 'an Estate situate in Leeds' published in April 1819 (see drawing 30) includes New Bond Street and Park Row with a site on the corner of New Bond Street and Russell Street marked as 'belonging to Mr Makin to be sold'.

P. Leach and N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding Leeds, Bradford and the North, 2009, p. 438, write of Park Row as the 'medieval N-S route between Park Lane ... and the Manor House ... developed as the main thoroughfare of the late C18 Park Estate development, of the buildings of that period there is no trace'.

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