Latitude: 53.7971 / 53°47'49"N
Longitude: -1.5405 / 1°32'25"W
OS Eastings: 430363
OS Northings: 433514
OS Grid: SE303335
Mapcode National: GBR BKL.NN
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.9TNH
Plus Code: 9C5WQFW5+RQ
Entry Name: The General Eliott Public House
Listing Date: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255794
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465645
ID on this website: 101255794
Location: Steander, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Leeds City
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Pub
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SE3033NW
714-1/76/405
LEEDS
VICAR LANE (West side)
No.33
The General Eliott Public House
GV
II
Public house. Early C19 with remains of c1700 house, restored c1982. Rendered brick, slate roof. Four storeys, two bays, with a three-storey bay right. c1900 public house front to ground floor; plain sash windows with continuous sills to upper floors, small square windows to right bay.
INTERIOR: small front bar refitted in traditional style with tiled bar and walls, c1980. Reputed to be an example of one of the early brick buildings surviving in the town, the original floor framing also thought to survive but the top storey an addition of the C19, (Michelmore Report). The General Eliott is mentioned in Baines' Directory of 1817 when William Lee was victualler; by 1839 George Flockton was the victualler and the street number was 1; by 1853 Thomas Greenhow took over and is named in the Directories until at least 1888.
An important site at the corner of one of the medieval main streets, Kirkgate, and opposite the site of the Vicarage.
Probably named after General George Augustus Eliott, First Baron Heathfield, known as the Defender of Gibralter.
(West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council: Michelmore, D (Archaeology Unit Report): General Elliott, Vicar Lane, Leeds: 1984-; Directories of Leeds, 1809-1888; Heap, A: Research at Leeds Local History Library: 1985-).
Listing NGR: SE3036333514
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