6, Lands Lane

LEEDS

SE3033NW LANDS LANE 714-1/76/236 (East side) No.6

GV II

Shop and storerooms. c1900, altered late C20. For Joseph Longley, bedding manufacturer and flock and feather merchant. Steel frame with glazed and terracotta facades, roof not visible. 4 storeys, corner site with 4 second-floor windows to Lands Lane and Albion Place, (left return) facades. Late C20 ground-floor shop windows following original divisions; first floor: full-height windows with probably original glazing bars with scrolled ogee form to transoms, curved glass to corners, plain signboard above. 2nd and 3rd floors: tall rectangular windows have moulded corniced heads and frames with carved transoms; triglyph frieze, moulded cornice, pierced parapet with 'LONGLEY' on each facade, scrolled coping with ball finials. Moulded plaque to 2nd-floor corner; right return: details similar, 1 bay. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.26 Albion Place (qv) possibly the original offices to this shop. In 1905 Joseph Longley also had premises at Nos 22-26 New York Street (qv). (Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1905-).

Listing NGR: SE3017633583