Description

SE3033SW
714-1/78/352

LEEDS
QUEEN'S COURT
(North side)
Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)

GV
II

Houses, workshops and shops. Mid C18 with later additions;
restoration 1989. Dark red brick, Flemish and random bond,
slate roofs. Rear wing of Nos 165A-169 Briggate (qv) with
houses and workshops forming north and east ranges of Queen's
Court, now shops.
North range composed of 3 builds, from west: i) 3-storey,
7-window rear wing with remains of stone foundation course,
C20 shop facade left, wide doorway with flanking windows to
right, flat and cambered heads to openings, C20 frames; ii)
2-storey, 3-window block, inserted doorway centre, coving to
eaves, tall brick stack; iii) 2-storey, 4-window block, eaves
band, 2 tall stacks; right return is of irregular hand-made
brick in random bond with a blocked round window to gable and
blocked first-floor loading door.
East range closing the east end of the court is of 2 storeys,
the eaves lower than in the north range, original covered
access way to Call Lane, centre.
INTERIOR: ground floor examined during restoration: timber
cross beams reused in west end.
For history, see Nos 165A-169 Briggate (qv); probably part of
the premises of a wool stapler and hatter in the early C19 and
tea dealer in the mid-later C19.
Rare survival of the compact type of building in the city
centre which evolved during the later C18 and early C19.
(Thornborough, P (West Yorkshire Archaeology Service): Queen's
Court, Lower Briggate, Leeds: 1987-: 13).

Listing NGR: SE3027033303

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547700

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House