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Victoria Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.8009 / 53°48'3"N

Longitude: -1.5498 / 1°32'59"W

OS Eastings: 429750

OS Northings: 433936

OS Grid: SE297339

Mapcode National: GBR BHK.N8

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.5Q8J

Plus Code: 9C5WRF22+93

Entry Name: Victoria Hotel

Listing Date: 22 March 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256223

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465119

ID on this website: 101256223

Location: 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 St George

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET
714-1/75/186 (North side)
22/03/74 No.28
Victoria Hotel

GV II

Public house and commercial hotel. 1865. Red brick, painted
stone dressings, slate mansard roof.
4 storeys and attic, 3 bays with 3:1:3 first-floor windows;
plate-glass sashes throughout. Main entrance centre has
shouldered arch and moulded attached marble columns with
foliate capitals; narrow entrance far left. Modillion cornice
at 1st-floor level, with frieze originally, now has fascia
board with 'VICTORIA FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL'. Shouldered
arches to all but top-storey windows, those to 1st floor, bays
1 and 3, having 2 marble columns supporting heavy lintels.
Moulded string courses to window head and sill levels; sill
mouldings clasp square-section drain pipe far left. Medallions
with lettering 'VICTORIA HOTEL' in frieze below 2nd-floor
windows. Deep bracketed eaves and 3 dormers windows: bays 1
and 3 plain, the centre bay with paired lights in Gothic
gable.
INTERIOR: much fine interior detailing, believed to be largely
original.
Built to serve people attending the Assize Courts in the Town
Hall, the hotel was bought by Tetley's brewery in 1916 for
ยป12,000.
(Pepper, B: Old Inns and Pubs of Leeds: 1988-: 42).



Listing NGR: SE2974833941

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