1-13, BOAR LANE (See details for further address information)

Temperance hotel, shops, offices and warehouse, now shops and offices at Nos.1-13 Boar Lane and No.4 Trevelyon Square, Leeds. Built 1869-72, designed by Thomas Ambler for Alderman John Barran, a pioneer of mass-produced ready-made clothing. Altered in the 20th century.

The building occupies a corner site and is constructed in two distinct architectural styles. The main section to the left is Italianate; the right section is Gothic Revival.

Main section (Italianate): A 5-storey, 13-window range to Boar Lane with red brick and stone dressings. The first floor features paired round-headed windows flanked by pilasters, the arches with carved keystones bearing cartouches. Windows 5, 8 and 9 have single similar lights; the curved corner to Briggate has the same. Second-floor windows are similar but with plain keystones and small pierced balconies to windows 1, 3, 11 and 13. Third-floor windows are square-headed, arranged as the lower floors and set in moulded architraves.

Two entrances, positioned below windows 5 and 9, have plain stone surrounds to deeply-recessed doorways, with the lintel inscribed "Trevelyon Chambers". Above each is a broken segmental pediment enclosing cornucopiae and cartouches bearing busts of Donne and Milton. First-floor entablatures at sill level are decorated with scrolls; ashlar impost bands run across, and a heavy modillion eaves cornice sits below the 5th storey. The parapet is pierced by dormer windows: Nos.1, 3, 11 and 13 have paired round-headed lights beneath elaborate semicircular pediments with oculi; the remaining dormers have keyed architraves under open triangular pediments (Nos.2 and 12 paired beneath a wide pediment with oculi). The building has a mansard roof with pavilions, grey slates, and 5 multi-flue stacks.

The left return (No.27 Briggate) features a curved single-light window at the street corner. The 3 windows of this facade are identical in detail to the first 3 windows of the Boar Lane frontage.

No.12: Ashlar with plain and fishscale grey slate pavilion roof.

No.13: Contrasting red and orange brick with stone dressings and hipped grey slate roof.

Right section (Gothic Revival): No.12 is a 4-storey, 1-window range to Boar Lane with 5 lights linked by stone piers. Similar windows appear on the 2nd and 3rd floors with increasingly elaborate Gothic tracery based on the Casa d'Oro in Venice. The ground-floor shop front is 20th-century. The parapet is panelled with quatrefoil piercings.

No.13 is a 4-storey, 1-window range to Boar Lane; a 3-window range extends to the right return (former White Horse Street), with a lean-to single-storey entrance bay to stairs to the right. Full-width 4-light mullion and transom windows light the ground and first floors; those to the first floor have ornate cusped heads. A similar 2-light window lights the 3rd floor. Ground-floor shop windows are 20th-century and boarded. Continuous head and sill mouldings run across; carved and panelled corner shafts terminate in gabled finials with gargoyles. The parapet is pierced stone. The right return has a moulded ogee-arched doorway and single-light windows with corner shafts as the front.

Interior: Not inspected.

Historical context: John Barran pioneered mass production of ready-made clothes in Leeds. He owned a shop at No.1 Boar Lane when the street was redeveloped in 1869 and built this structure as a temperance hotel with shops and storerooms.

In 1872 the building housed: No.1, J Barran, tailor and outfitter; No.2, tobacconist; No.3, dining room; No.4, brush and fancy warehouse; No.5, boot and shoe manufacturer; No.6, tobacconist; No.7, Thomas Twist, Trevelyon Temperance Hotel; Nos.8 and 9, fish and game dealer; No.10, portmanteau maker; No.11, Brooke Bond and Co, teamen; No.12, SR Burton, wholesale stationer, ink and sealing wax manufacturer; No.13, John H Sugden, tobacconist. Three years later the upper floors of No.13 were also occupied by a revolving shutter manufacturer and a consulting engineer, both probably using the separate entrance via the doorway on White Horse Street.

The Temperance Hotel operated until the end of the First World War. The building was probably named after Sir Walter C Trevelyon (1797-1879), President of the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance, or Sir Charles Edward Trevelyon (1807-1886), whose career as Governor of Madras, Secretary of State to the Treasury, and positions in Ireland made him a well-known contemporary figure associated with various social questions. Thomas Ambler was employed by Barran to design his model clothing factory and showroom at St Paul's House, Park Square, and other buildings in Boar Lane are attributed to him.