Preliminary and finished survey drawings of Mr John Goodman's premises in Park Row (3)

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  - The Bank of England Branch Banks, 1826-1831 (353)
    - Leeds, Yorkshire: Bank of England branch: survey drawings, design for alterations and related documents for five premises in Commerical Street, Albion Street and Park Row and New Bond Street, 1826-1827 (30)

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Reference number

SM (27) volume 55/10 (28) 56/7/20 (29) 56/7/19

Purpose

Preliminary and finished survey drawings of Mr John Goodman's premises in Park Row (3)

Aspect

27 Rough survey plan of ground floor of (pencil) M^rJohn Goodmans premises in Park Row Leeds
28 Plan of the Ground Floor of M^rJohn Goodman's Premises in Park Row Leeds
29 View of Mr Goodman's House in Park Row Leeds

Scale

(28) bar scale of ? inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

27 as above, (pencil) £ / 2 years / 250 and dimensions given
28 as above, Russell Street, Greek Street, This part of the Premises occupied by / M^rGoodman as Counting Houses .... Warehouses &^c, labelled: Iron Railing (twice), Area (twice), Lobby, There are Arched Cellars / under this Room, Staircase, Steps down / to Basement 1 2 3 4 5, Stairs up to 1 Pair 1 2 3 4 5 6, Steps down to Basement 1 2 3, Wall 12.6 high, Yard in Basement, Roof of Basement offices, Dwarf Wall with Stone Coping, Yard belonging to M^rGoodman and some dimensions given
29 as above

Medium and dimensions

(27) Pencil on laid paper leaves in a leather bound sketchbook (see note to drawings 11-16) (286 x 214) (28) pen, sepia, warm sepia and blue washes within single ruled border on stout wove paper (367 x 539) (29) pen, sepia, Indian red, raw umber and blue washes on wove paper (220 x 277)

Hand

(27-29) George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60) and (27) title added later by Walter L. Spiers (1848-1917, curator 1904-17)

Watermark

(28) Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

The survey shows a dignified three-storey, five-bay building with two doors, of which three-fifths of the premises (60 feet wide by 52 feet deep) is to let or for sale. The building is of brick with stone banded rustication to the ground floor storey and a frontispiece of stone giant Ionic pilasters that frame the second and fourth bays of the upper storeys. A plan of several streets in Leeds (drawing 30) shows a site marked 'M^r Goodman's / Premises' that has Greek Street to the north, Russell Street to the south and Park Row to the east.
See Notes to drawings 11-16 regarding volume 55 (drawing 27).

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