Yorkshire Bank

LEEDS

SE3033SW DUNCAN STREET 714-1/78/155 (North side) 07/05/92 No.4 Yorkshire Bank (Formerly Listed as: BRIGGATE (North side) Nos.149-150 (Odd))

GV II

Includes: Nos.148, 149 AND 150 BRIGGATE. Shop and offices, now bank. c1904, altered C20. By Percy Robinson. For Messrs Hepworth. Terracotta by the Leeds Fireclay Company, modelled panels by E Caldwell Spruce, slate roof. 4 storeys with attics; corner site, 4 bays and narrower entrance bay on left return (Briggate), corner bay, 3 bays and narrower entrance bay to right, (Duncan Street). Baroque Revival style. Later C20 bank entrance and windows with probably original rusticated pilasters at bay divisions to ground floor which are carried up to eaves level; canted bay windows in round-arched recesses to 1st and 2nd floors, paired attached columns and recessed sashes to 3rd floor, round window on corner; modillion eaves cornice, elaborate scrolled parapet, round windows in ornate gables flanking octagonal turret with ball finials and dome surmounted by slender finial. Moulded decoration to sill bands, spandrels and framing round windows: swags, scrolls, plaques, female figures. INTERIOR: not inspected. A catalogue of photographs of newly-built examples of the Leeds Fireclay Company's terracotta shows the original ground floor fenestration (Kirkstall Museum archive).

Listing NGR: SE3025133416