Description

LEEDS

SE3033NW VICAR LANE
714-1/76/409 (East side)
09/11/93 Nos.64 AND 66
Wray's Buildings

GV II

Includes: Nos.5 AND 7 HAREWOOD STREET.
Includes: Nos.6 AND 8 SIDNEY STREET.
Shops and chambers, now bank and shops. c1900, altered C20.
Brick, terracotta details, grey slate roof with 4 massive
multi-flue moulded brick stacks. 3 storeys and attics, 2 bays,
corner site with 7 bays to Sidney Street, left return.
Jacobean style.
Ground floor: late C20 bank and shop facades follow original
bay divisions; 1st floor: slightly projecting bay windows of 3
lights, moulded surrounds and bracketed sills; similar
rectangular windows to 2nd floor surmounted by a band with
moulded terracotta panels; 3-light transom and mullion windows
and cyma-moulded gables to 3rd storey. Moulded plaque on
corner, 1st floor.
Left return: ground-floor centre has 2 original paired
round-headed windows in moulded arch with circular panel and
the entrance to Wray's Buildings to left in same style: a
panel in the tympanum has the building's name flanked by
figures with flowers in relief.
Upper floors: the 3 right bays similar to main facade; the
bays to left have an extra floor within the same building
height and the 1st-floor windows are a showroom/workroom type,
almost full-height and flat arched; decorative detail to
gabled bay left as main front.
Rear: the Harewood Street facade has 3 windows, fenestration
as Sidney Street return, stack rises above blank 4th-storey
wall.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
In 1910 the building was occupied by a butcher (No.64) and
Robert Wray Ltd., confectioner (No.66).
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds, 1910).

Listing NGR: SE3042533630

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547360

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