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

LEEDS

SE3033NW VICAR LANE 714-1/76/406 (East side) 10/09/93 Nos.50-56 (Even)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1, 2 AND 3 HAREWOOD STREET. Includes: Nos.3-9 LUDGATE HILL. Shops, bank, and club premises. Early C20, restoration begun 1994. Steel frame with terracotta cladding and ashlar details. 4 storeys and attics, 3 bays and narrow entrance bay to chambers far left; corner site with 6 bays to Ludgate Hill, (right return) and 6 bays including narrower entrance bay to rear (Harewood Street). Ground floor: possibly original corner entrance to bank with arched window flanked by paired columns on left and 3 similar windows to right return, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice; ground-floor shop fronts on all facades. Each facade has large showroom windows rising through 1st and 2nd floors with 3-light windows in segmental-arched openings; a narrow round-headed corner window; 3rd floor: sash windows; bracketed eaves cornice, blocking course, projecting hexagonal pilasters rise from elaborately moulded bosses at 2nd-floor level and terminate in small domes. Attic storey: corner turret with moulded band and cornice, lead dome with finial; paired round-headed dormer windows with stepped gables above. Rear: narrow entrance, bay 4, service windows above; plain fenestration to the 2 right bays, pilaster retains tall finial. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the 1910 directory indicates that the building was then used by the Bradford Bank Ltd., a wallpaper dealer, the Universal Furnishing Company (house furnishers, Ludgate Hill), the Leeds and County Commercial Club (No.56), a billiard table manufacturer and an artificial flower maker. The Leeds and County Commercial Club was a branch of the National Commercial Temperance League, founded 1900. The club was formed in 1903 and was used by commercial travellers, professional and business men for business and social meetings. The facilities in this building included reading, dining and billiard rooms; lectures, addresses and concerts were organised and the Club was run on Temperance lines. The top floor and roof were severely damaged by fire in 1993. (Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1910-).

Listing NGR: SE3041733600