17a, East Parade

This building, dated 1863 and altered circa 1911, was originally designed as auction house offices and a sale room by George Corson for Hepper and Sons, auctioneers. It is constructed of Harehills sandstone with granite and marble detailing, wrought ironwork, and a slate roof. The building is rendered in the Gothic Revival style and comprises two storeys and a basement, with three gabled bays. A pointed arch entrance porch on the left features paired polished granite columns and wrought-iron gates with floral and spiral motifs. To the right, two windows have attached granite shafts with carved capitals. The first floor has large arcaded windows with marble pilaster shafts and carved imposts.

Inside, the entrance lobby contains a flight of four stone steps. The walls are decorated with terracotta tiles featuring Moorish flower and leaf patterns, and there is a pair of glazed inner doors set within a glazed screen with a semicircular overlight. A curved staircase has a ramped handrail and column balusters. The ground floor includes two sale rooms extending from a reception room; the main sales room has a coved ceiling, moulded ribbed plasterwork, wooden panels with circular piercings, and a plain chamfered stone fire surround. The rear sales room has a coved ceiling and a plain end fireplace. The front room on the first floor features a coved ceiling with ventilation grilles and a marble fireplace. The basement storerooms contain paired, moulded cast-iron columns supporting large cross-beams. The front wall displays remnants of 18th-century walling and sills, aligned with the existing building line. Around 1911, William Bakewell altered the ground-floor windows to compensate for light taken from the adjacent Pearl Assurance building.