Goodbard House

Goodbard House is a hotel and office building, dated 1905 and altered in the 20th century. Located on a prominent corner site at the junction of Infirmary Street and King Street in Leeds, it now functions as a bank and offices. The building is constructed of polished Peterhead granite to the ground floor, with sandstone above. It features wrought-iron detailing and a rebuilt slate roof.

The building is four storeys high, with an additional attic and two added storeys in the roof. The facade facing King Street has five bays, the corner has three, and the Infirmary Street facade has three bays. Each street facade has a keyed round-arched entrance at its centre, with the King Street entrance retaining a wrought-iron overthrow with a seaweed scroll design. The name 'Hotel de Ville' is inscribed but erased above the oriel window. Segmental-arched full-height windows are punctuated by original pilasters, brackets, and a cornice.

The upper floors are characterized by rusticated pilaster strips dividing the bays. Windows on the first and third floors include elaborately moulded panels above the round arches. Moulded strings are carried over the principal windows on the second floor as segmental pediments. A modillion eaves cornice sits above a balustraded parapet, interrupted by a date plaque over the central King Street entrance and a pedimented gabled dormer. A similar dormer is located on the Infirmary Street side, to the left. The corner parapet includes moulded oval plaques flanking a domed octagonal corner turret supported by two Atlantes with coupled attached columns. The interior of the building has not been inspected.

Historical records, including the 1910 Leeds Post Office Directory and Ordnance Survey map, indicate that the building was originally 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, alongside 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.