Description

LEEDS

SE3033SW BOAR LANE
714-1/78/44 (South side)
Nos.24-28 (Consecutive)
Victoria Buildings

GV II

Warehouse, offices and shops. c1872, altered C20. Ashlar,
probably grey slate roof concealed by elaborate dentilled
cornice and a parapet flanking a bust of Queen Victoria in a
pedimented niche.
4-storey corner site in Classical style; 12 first-floor
windows: 8 to Boar Lane, 1 to corner, 3 to New Station Street.
Elaborate architraves and cornices, some with shallow
triangular pediments, to first floor; more restrained
surrounds to 2nd floor and plain to 3rd; the 5 windows to
right, 2nd and 3rd floors, Boar Lane facade, are taller, the
heads breaking the decorative moulding line. C20 shop fronts
to ground floor. The facade is divided horizontally by moulded
bands at sill level and vertically by panelled pilasters.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: designed to unite the street frontages of New
Station Street and Boar Lane when the new station access was
created in 1873, the design of the facade reflects the varied
uses to which the building was first put.
The occupants in 1872/73 were: John Claybrough, shirt-maker
and hosier (No.24), Lee Hardwick, solicitor and The
Metropolitan Co-operative Consumers Company (No.25), Masser
and Sons, lithographer and stationers (No.26), Hugh Davies,
hosier (No.27), and R Goodson, mantle warehouse (No.28). In
1886 the mantle warehouse included a factory on the 4th floor.
The pilasters on the parapet originally carried elaborate
urns.
(Porter T: Directory of Leeds and its Neighbourhood: 1872-;
Insurance map of Leeds: 1886-; Photograph in collection of
Leeds Civic Trust taken mid C20).

Listing NGR: SE3004833357

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547436

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