St Leonards House

St Leonard’s House is a furniture factory built in 1881-2 for Gillow and Company, extended in the early 20th century, and altered in 1964. It is now offices and was formerly used by the University of Lancaster and as an Adult Education College. The building is constructed of squared coursed sandstone with a slate roof, and has a basement accessed from the rear. The original block is a long rectangular building of 11 bays, running parallel to the road, with 4 storeys and an attic. The windows are timber casements with glazing bars, arranged in paired vertical-rectangular openings separated by a stone mullion, with projecting sills; a sill band is present on the first floor. The right-hand bay on the ground floor contains only one window, with an entrance to Sugar House Alley on the right side. The attic storey has continuous clerestory lighting of timber casements with glazing bars under a slate roof. A lift tower projects upwards from the front wall on the left. An early 20th-century addition is set back on the left, of 10 bays separated by black-painted concrete columns, with timber windows of 4x4 panes (4x3 on the fourth floor), and painted brick panels below their sills. The two right-hand bays on the ground floor contain the entrance and a window opening added in 1964. The addition also has clerestory lighting to the attic storey, but a flat-roofed brick projection rising above the main eaves line is located in front of bays 5-7. The interior has been altered with the addition of suspended ceilings, floor coverings, and partition walls. The building was constructed alongside a showroom on North Road, now Waring and Gillow's Showroom.