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Former The Odeon Cinema

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7993 / 53°47'57"N

Longitude: -1.541 / 1°32'27"W

OS Eastings: 430328

OS Northings: 433759

OS Grid: SE303337

Mapcode National: GBR BKK.JV

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.9RFS

Plus Code: 9C5WQFX5+PH

Entry Name: Former The Odeon Cinema

Listing Date: 15 October 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255903

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465469

Also known as: Odeon Cinema
Paramount Theatre

ID on this website: 101255903

Location: The Leylands, 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

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SE3033NW
714-1/76/388

LEEDS
THE HEADROW (North side)
Nos.14-20 (Even)
Former The Odeon Cinema

(Formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)

15/10/93

GV
II

Cinema and shops. 1930-32. Exterior designed as part of The Headrow development by Sir Reginald Blomfield, interior by Frank T Verity, altered 1969, 1978 and 1988. Steel-framed, faced in red brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. Classical style. Four storeys, seventeen windows. Rusticated ashlar ground floor with shop fronts. Upper three floors have ashlar pavilions with giant Doric pilasters and moulded ashlar window surrounds at bays one, eleven and seventeen. The whole topped by a balustrade and crowning urns.

Corner entrance to cinema: original fenestration and decoration survives but now obscured by later C20 signboards.

INTERIOR: no original features remain.

(Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial history: Leeds: 1990-: 43).

Listing NGR: SE3032833766

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