Description

LEEDS

SE3033NW VICAR LANE
714-1/76/411 (East side)
17/06/96 Nos.76-88 (Even)

GV II

Formerly known as: County Houses VICAR LANE.
Includes: Nos.11 AND 13 HAREWOOD STREET.
Includes: Nos.2-8 EASTGATE.
Shops, workshops and hotel. Early C20, altered late C20.
Brick, banded terracotta, grey slate roof with 3 tall moulded
brick stacks forward of ridge to left of centre and far left
on left return.
3 storeys and attics, 6 bays, canted bay to corner (Eastgate)
and 2 bays on left return. Ground floor: late C20 shop fronts;
1st floor: large segmental-arched windows, 3 round-headed
windows to corner, grey terracotta voussoirs. 2nd floor: 1-,
2, and 3-window grouping, sashes arranged 2:3:3:1:3:3:3 with
terracotta above transom level, moulded lintels, cornice,
parapet. Attic storey: paired windows in pedimented gables
with moulded plaques in the tympanum, ramped parapet between,
2 dormer windows; corner turret with sashes as 2nd floor;
eaves brackets, domed lead roof.
Left return, (Eastgate): 2 full-height bays with gable and
dormer window and a lower, 3-storey block to left in banded
brick and terracotta, narrow upper-floor windows. Rear,
(Harewood Street): to left of rear yard access a 3-window
facade as front, to right a symmetrical gabled facade with
terracotta plaques including a female mask in Art Nouveau
style, kneelers and gable coping.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The 1910 directory indicates the following users of the
building: H Gilchrist, house furnisher; Nos 78 & 80 Gardam
Bros., clothiers; No.82: County Hotel, Leeds; No.88: Thornton
and Hodgson, tailors.
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1910-).

Listing NGR: SE3044933692

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547328

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