53 And 55, Leeds Road Bd1

1. 5111 LEEDS ROAD BD1

Nos 53 and 55 SE 1633 SE 37/708

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1. Warehouse/offices on corner site with Vicar Lane and part of the "Little Germany" mercantile precinct. Architect Eli Milnes, 1862. No 55 is a slightly later extension in similar style. Four tall storeys, ashlar sandstone on rusticated vermiculated basement storey. The corner bowed and slightly inset. Sill bands and bracket cornice over raised ground floor. Heavy console bracket cornice over third floor. Frieze and moulded eaves cornice. Section of pierced parapet between chimneys over corner. Awkwardly arched ground floor windows with linking impost string, cartouches set in spandrels to Leeds road front. First floor windows have pilaster strips and cornices on console brackets. Engaged Doric columned doorway to No 53 with deep full entablature.Similar pilastered doorway to No 55. Above the latter rises a 5 storey quoin pilastered tower linking the 2 facades, nearly flush with them, and serving to mark the slight change in angle of the building line. The first floor has a pilastered oriel bow window, paired round headed light to upper floor and top stage with clock faces over-arched by eaves cornice, the corner supported by paired consoles. The right hand elevation, No 55, had pedimented oeuil de boeuf dormers above third floor cornice. This rich Italianate design holds an important corner site.

Listing NGR: SE1677133060