17, Yorkshire Street

17 Yorkshire Street is a former town house built in 1708 for the Vavasour family, who were woolstaplers and merchants. By 1745, it had become the Union Flag Hotel, and by 1894, it was occupied by JH King, an ironmonger, featuring large ground floor shop windows. In 1930, the building was acquired by Lloyds Bank, which completely rebuilt the ground floor, replacing the shop windows with rusticated stone and smaller windows. As of 2019, the building stands empty after being used as a bank until around 2013.

The structure is made of brick with a stone ground floor and dressings, topped with slate and copper roofs. It has a corner entrance and a roughly square plan, with three storeys and three bays facing Yorkshire Street, two bays on the former Lord Street, and a curved corner bay featuring large tripartite windows. The rusticated ground floor has pronounced voussoirs and keystones above flat arches for the windows and doors, all of which were completely rebuilt in 1930. The second and third storey windows are adorned with stone architraves and keystones, with moulded panels below on the first floor and blind balustrading on the second floor. Each window is flanked by Ionic fluted pilasters in the Palladian style, supporting a stone cornice. The timber modillion eaves cornice is topped with a pitched roof featuring swept hips and a substantial balcony facing Yorkshire Street. This balcony is fronted by a dentilled gable and has iron railings that end in large acorn-like vases on pedestals.

Inside, the building has triangular patterned architraves and a plastered ceiling, but much of the interior is from the 20th century. The tiers of Ionic pilasters are notably early for Lancashire.