Description

LEEDS

SE3033SW BOAR LANE
714-1/78/40 (South side)
22/03/74 Nos.14-18 (Consecutive)

GV II

Includes: Nos.2 AND 3 Ambler House TREVELYAN SQUARE.
Shops, offices, storerooms and dining room. 1869-75. Early and
mid C20 alterations. Possibly by Thomas Ambler. Ashlar,
decorative fishscale grey slate roof. In Italianate style.
4 storeys with attic, 5 bays defining the separate properties
and designed as a symmetrical facade: a,b,c,b,a. Fenestration,
central bay: tripartite round-headed window to first and 2nd
floors with fluted pilasters, deep first-floor sill cornice
and triangular pediment to 2nd floor, centre; 3-light
shouldered arch window to third floor; balustered sill. Dormer
in segmental arch, pavilion roof.
Bays 2 and 4: C20 window to first floor, bay 2, was probably
identical to that in bay 4 which is tripartite, has fluted
pilasters and knob motif to architrave; 2nd floor has plain
architraves and fluted sill band surviving to bay 4.
Square-headed 3rd-floor windows, vertical banding to
architraves and diamond motif to sill band.
Central shop entrance with early C20 casing: pilasters with
festoons and cartouches under modillioned cornice; boarded C20
shop fronts. A pierced stone parapet is carried across the 3
central bays, the property divisions marked by plinths with
ornate ball finials, one surviving. Bays 1 and 5: two plain
rectangular windows to each floor, set slightly lower than the
central bays; splayed corners, oriel turret rising from 2nd
floor has mullion and transom windows and steep tent-shaped
spire above. Right return: 4 bays fenestrated as facade, bay
5; the right bay having a plain doorway with overlight and
smaller windows. Left return similar. Rear redeveloped and
rebuilt 1993.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: at the sale of land on the newly widened Boar
Lane in 1869 the block between White Horse Street and Gascoine
Street, (both formerly entrances to yards) was divided into 5
narrow lots having a frontage to the prestigious new road and
a deep 'backsides'.
The new buildings were carefully designed to take advantage of
the site and the details of the central bay, (No.16), are
similar to those on Nos 1-11 Boar Lane (qv), suggesting that
the same architect was involved.
In 1872 only No.16 was occupied, by Joseph Parkin, tailor. By

1875 the block was completed and occupied by: a chemist and
druggist together with the offices of the Singer Manufacturing
Company and a Mining engineer (No.14); the same chemist,
together with the Imperial Tea Company (No.15); as previously
(No.16); David Barnard, glass and china merchant (No.17); a
wine and spirits merchant (No.17); Horatio Blackburn
established a Dining Room (No.18).
(Porter T: Directory of Leeds and its Neighbourhood: Leeds:
1873-; White W: Directory of Leeds: Sheffield: 1875-).

Listing NGR: SE3014133367

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547435

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