St Jame'S Hall Westminster Buildings

St James's Hall and Westminster Buildings, located at 25-41 New York Street in Leeds, is a temperance hotel, public hall, and dining rooms that has been converted into shops and offices. Built in 1877 and enlarged in 1884, it was designed by Thomas Ambler for WJ Armitage. The building features red brick with polychrome brick and stone dressings, and it has a flat roof that is not visible. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and stands four storeys tall on an island site, with a long elevation facing New York Street and shorter returns.

The ground floor consists of eight bays of shops, with flat-headed fascias on the left and segmental fascias on the right. The original arrangement includes cast-iron elements, with brackets supporting a dentilled cornice and ball finials on the left return. Central double doors lead under a crocketed gable to the Westminster Building. The first and second floors display eight lancet windows with colonnettes on the right, three arched bays with two tiers of windows featuring traceried heads in the center, and three plainer bays with paired windows on the left. The third floor has eight plain sash windows on the right and six paired sash windows with arched heads on the left. The parapet and roof line have been damaged and repaired.

The building features canted corners with three-light windows, lancets on the right side facing Harper Street, and more decorative tracery on the left return. The eaves have a stone plaque inscribed 'ST JAMES'S HALL'. The interior has not been inspected, but originally it included coffee, dining, reading, and smoking rooms on the ground floor, a lecture room seating 450 on the first floor, club rooms and the manager's apartments on the second floor, and dormitory apartments for strangers and working men on the third floor. The attic floor was destroyed by fire in the mid-20th century.