Description

LEEDS

SE3033NW VICAR LANE
714-1/76/406 (East side)
10/09/93 Nos.50-56 (Even)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1, 2 AND 3 HAREWOOD STREET.
Includes: Nos.3-9 LUDGATE HILL.
Shops, bank, and club premises. Early C20, restoration begun
1994. Steel frame with terracotta cladding and ashlar details.
4 storeys and attics, 3 bays and narrow entrance bay to
chambers far left; corner site with 6 bays to Ludgate Hill,
(right return) and 6 bays including narrower entrance bay to
rear (Harewood Street).
Ground floor: possibly original corner entrance to bank with
arched window flanked by paired columns on left and 3 similar
windows to right return, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice;
ground-floor shop fronts on all facades. Each facade has large
showroom windows rising through 1st and 2nd floors with
3-light windows in segmental-arched openings; a narrow
round-headed corner window; 3rd floor: sash windows; bracketed
eaves cornice, blocking course, projecting hexagonal pilasters
rise from elaborately moulded bosses at 2nd-floor level and
terminate in small domes. Attic storey: corner turret with
moulded band and cornice, lead dome with finial; paired
round-headed dormer windows with stepped gables above.
Rear: narrow entrance, bay 4, service windows above; plain
fenestration to the 2 right bays, pilaster retains tall
finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the 1910 directory indicates that the
building was then used by the Bradford Bank Ltd., a wallpaper
dealer, the Universal Furnishing Company (house furnishers,
Ludgate Hill), the Leeds and County Commercial Club (No.56), a
billiard table manufacturer and an artificial flower maker.
The Leeds and County Commercial Club was a branch of the
National Commercial Temperance League, founded 1900. The club
was formed in 1903 and was used by commercial travellers,
professional and business men for business and social
meetings. The facilities in this building included reading,
dining and billiard rooms; lectures, addresses and concerts
were organised and the Club was run on Temperance lines. The
top floor and roof were severely damaged by fire in 1993.
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1910-).

Listing NGR: SE3041733600

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547354

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Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)