Description

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SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/80 (West side)
15/11/72 Nos.309, 311 AND 313
Wayfarers Arcade with attached
verandah
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Burton Arcade: Nos 1-45 (odd), No
45A, No 49, Nos 2-42 (even), No
42A, No 44)
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD STREET
(West side)
Nos 287-307 (odd). Entrance to
Burton Arcade. Nos 315-321 (odd). No
325)

GV II

2 shops and a shopping arcade, with attached verandah. 1886,
by G Smith of Glasgow. Sandstone ashlar facade, with side
walls of white glazed brick, slate roofs and glass roof to
arcade. Facades in Jacobean style. Large irregular plan with
front shops of one and 2 narrow bays flanking a narrow
entrance to the arcade, which widens to their rear and extends
back to West Street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics; one and 2 windows separated by
gap containing arcade entrance. The shops have C20 ground
floors, and upper floors with giant pilasters, fluted friezes,
moulded cornices with small pediments over the centre of each
bay, and steep Dutch gables (coupled to the right) with oculi
and Jacobean finials; large wooden canted oriels at first
floor, and mullioned 3-light windows at second floor with
arched centre lights.
The attached verandah, of 4 bays (of which the second is the
entrance to the arcade), has cast-iron columns with acanthus
enrichment to the pedestals, volute caps and scrolled brackets
with leaves, elaborate cresting to the first bay and the third
and fourth, and single-pitched glazed roofs.
The arcade entrance has a glazed barrel-vault at first-floor
level, with a lettered frieze and large semicircular fanlight
with enriched radiating glazing bars.
INTERIOR: the arcade has a straight passage leading to an
almost octagonal concourse with an aisled nave running west
from this; the concourse and nave are lined with small shops
restored in late C20, above which are galleries, with
wrought-iron railings to the south and east sides of the
concourse and the west half of the north side of the nave, but
otherwise enclosed by panelled walls to shops on the upper
floor, mostly oversailing, with wide windows which have arched
Art Nouveau glazing in the overlights.
Glazed roof on semicircular latticed girders with pitched
ventilating clerestory along the apex, variously decorated.
Forms group with Nos 293-307 to the left (qv) and with Nos
315-325 adjoining to the right (qv), and the verandah is part
of the series which characterizes this street.

Listing NGR: SD3359217332

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wayfarers Arcade at Wikipedia
• Wayfarers Arcade official website
• Wikidata Q7975895

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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