92 AND 93, BRIGGATE

LEEDS

SE3033NW BRIGGATE 714-1/76/62 (East side) Nos.92 AND 93

GV II

Shop, now restaurant. c1600, refronted c1700 and c1800, largely rebuilt early 1924-26, altered late C20. Rebuilt to the designs of WH Beevers and AE Dixon of Leeds for William Greenwood as a jewellers shop and tea rooms. Timber-framed, tiled facade, probably steel-framed, roof not visible. 4 storeys, 3 bays, Classical style. Late C20 shop window to ground floor; 1st and 2nd floors have recessed windows of 2,3,2 lights with leaded panes and square panels with circles and acanthus motifs; flanking pilasters have Classical motifs including acanthus leaves and guttae, raised plaque below dentilled eaves cornice with lion masks. 3rd floor: paired central windows under triangular pediment, plaques to outer bays and panels with raised sunflower surmounted by urns. INTERIOR: first-floor north party wall: timber-framing recorded 1995 during building work, subsequently covered over. Approx 10m x 2m remains of presumably a merchant's house, c1700. Evidence of jettied gable to Briggate. The building occupied by William Greenwood, jewellers, 1920-1940. (RCHME: Historic Building Report: 92-93 Briggate: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SE3028433705