Wrays Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1993. Commercial. 6 related planning applications.

Wrays Buildings

WRENN ID
seventh-slate-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1993
Type
Commercial
Address
Wrays Buildings, 64 and 66, Vicar Lane, LS1 7JH
OS grid reference
SE 304 336
Coordinates
53.79811, -1.53958
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wray's Buildings is a group of shops and chambers, now a bank and shops, built around 1900 and altered in the 20th century. The structure is made of brick with terracotta details and features a grey slate roof topped with four large, multi-flue moulded brick stacks. It stands three storeys high with attics, consisting of two bays on a corner site and seven bays along Sidney Street, showcasing a Jacobean style.

The ground floor has late 20th-century bank and shop facades that respect the original bay divisions. The first floor features slightly projecting bay windows with three lights, moulded surrounds, and bracketed sills. The second floor has similar rectangular windows topped by a band with moulded terracotta panels, while the third storey displays three-light transom and mullion windows beneath cyma-moulded gables. A moulded plaque is located on the corner at the first floor.

On the left return, the ground floor center has two original paired round-headed windows set in a moulded arch with a circular panel, with the entrance to Wray's Buildings to the left in the same style. The tympanum above the entrance features the building's name flanked by figures with flowers in relief. The upper floors on the right side mirror the main facade, while the left side has an extra floor at the same height, with first-floor windows that are showroom/workroom types, nearly full-height and flat arched, along with decorative detail on the gabled bay.

At the rear, the Harewood Street facade has three windows, with fenestration matching that of the Sidney Street return, and a stack rises above a blank fourth-storey wall. The interior has not been inspected. In 1910, the building housed a butcher at No.64 and Robert Wray Ltd., a confectioner at No.66, according to Kelly's Directory of Leeds from that year.

Local climate

Wrays Buildings receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
  • Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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