Description

LEEDS

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
»12,000.
(Pepper, B: Old Inns and Pubs of Leeds: 1988-: 42).

Listing NGR: SE2974833941

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547762

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings