71, Boar Lane

No. 71 Boar Lane is a shop, workshops, and offices built around 1870, with alterations made around 1920 and 1980. The building features a stuccoed exterior and a low-pitched hipped slate roof, and it stands four storeys tall in an Italianate style on a corner site with a rounded corner. The façade has four and five bays, with late 20th-century shop windows on the ground floor. The first and second floors are characterized by giant pilasters and large round-headed windows with attached moulded columns, and voussoirs above the second floor. The third floor has small flat-headed windows flanked by fluted pilasters. A heavy modillion cornice and a parapet with cast-iron cresting complete the design. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this building is part of the rebuilding of Boar Lane after 1869 and was known as Trinity House in 1872. It was occupied by John T Beer, a tailor and outfitter who lived at Threapland House in Fulneck. The Classical details added to the rendering of several city centre buildings in the 1920s reflect the fashion for real and imitation marble ('Marmo') facades.