50-56, VICAR LANE (See details for further address information)

This building, located at 50-56 Vicar Lane (with further address details available separately), comprises a group of shops, bank premises, and club facilities, dating from the early 20th century. Restoration work began in 1994. The structure has a steel frame clad in terracotta, with decorative ashlar detailing. It is four storeys tall, with an attic level, and features a three-bay arrangement with a narrower entrance bay to the far left. The corner site also extends six bays along Ludgate Hill (the right return) and six bays, including a narrower entrance bay, to the rear, facing Harewood Street.

The ground floor originally featured a corner entrance to the bank, with an arched window flanked by paired columns on the left and three similar windows on the right return, along with a pulvinated frieze and a modillion cornice. Shop fronts have been added to all facades. Each facade showcases large showroom windows extending through the first and second floors, with three-light windows in segmental arched openings. A narrow, round-headed window is positioned at the corner. The third floor incorporates sash windows. A bracketed eaves cornice and blocking course are present, along with projecting hexagonal pilasters rising from elaborately moulded bosses at the second-floor level and terminating in small domes. The attic storey has a corner turret with a moulded band and cornice, a lead dome with a finial, and paired round-headed dormer windows with stepped gables above.

The rear elevation features a narrow entrance bay (bay 4), service windows above, and plain fenestration to the two right bays, while a pilaster retains a tall finial. The interior of the building was not inspected for listing purposes.

Historical records from 1910 indicate the building housed businesses including Bradford Bank Ltd., a wallpaper dealer, the Universal Furnishing Company, the Leeds and County Commercial Club (at No. 56), a billiard table manufacturer, and an artificial flower maker. The Leeds and County Commercial Club, established in 1903 as a branch of the National Commercial Temperance League (founded 1900), provided facilities for commercial travellers, professional and business men, including reading, dining, and billiard rooms, as well as lectures, addresses, and concerts, adhering to temperance principles. A fire severely damaged the top floor and roof in 1993.