Goodbard House

LEEDS

SE2933NE INFIRMARY STREET 714-1/75/218 (South side) 22/03/74 Nos.9-15 (Odd) Goodbard House (Formerly Listed as: INFIRMARY STREET Nos.9-15 (Odd) Bardon Chambers) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Nos.18-22 (Even) Bardon Chambers)

GV II

Includes: Nos.18, 20 AND 22 Goodbard House KING STREET. Hotel and offices, now bank and offices. Dated 1905, altered C20. Polished Peterhead granite to ground floor, sandstone above, wrought-iron detail, rebuilt slate roof. 4 storeys and attic, 2 added storeys in roof; prominent corner site with 5 bays to King Street, 3 to corner and 3 to Infirmary Street. Ground floor: a keyed round-arched entrance at centre of each street facade, the King Street entrance retains its wrought-iron seaweed-scrolled overthrow and the oriel window above has the erased name, 'Hotel de Ville' beneath; segmental-arched full-height windows have original pilasters, brackets and cornice. Upper floor: bays divided by rusticated pilaster strips; flat, and round-arched windows, those with round arch, to 1st and 3rd floors, have elaborately moulded panels above; moulded strings, those to 2nd floor carried over principal windows as segmental pediments. Modillion eaves cornice, balustraded parapet interrupted by date plaque over central King Street entrance and pedimented gabled dormer, a similar dormer to Infirmary Street, left; the corner parapet has moulded oval plaques flanking a domed octagonal corner turret with coupled attached columns supported by 2 Atlantes. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the 1910 Directory and Ordnance Survey map shows that the building was probably designed as a combined hotel and office complex with shop units on the ground floor; the Infirmary Street offices were occupied by JS Fry and Sons Ltd, cocoa and chocolate manufacturers, together with Wildblood and Ward, Stationers, and the Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Company; the Hotel de Ville with a restaurant run by Miss Mary Annie Roulstone faced King Street.

(Leeds Post Office Directory: 1910-; Map of Leeds: 1910-).

Listing NGR: SE2977833572