The General Eliott Public House

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LEEDS VICAR LANE (West side) No.33 The General Eliott Public House

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Public house. Early C19 with remains of c1700 house, restored c1982. Rendered brick, slate roof. Four storeys, two bays, with a three-storey bay right. c1900 public house front to ground floor; plain sash windows with continuous sills to upper floors, small square windows to right bay.

INTERIOR: small front bar refitted in traditional style with tiled bar and walls, c1980. Reputed to be an example of one of the early brick buildings surviving in the town, the original floor framing also thought to survive but the top storey an addition of the C19, (Michelmore Report). The General Eliott is mentioned in Baines' Directory of 1817 when William Lee was victualler; by 1839 George Flockton was the victualler and the street number was 1; by 1853 Thomas Greenhow took over and is named in the Directories until at least 1888.

An important site at the corner of one of the medieval main streets, Kirkgate, and opposite the site of the Vicarage.

Probably named after General George Augustus Eliott, First Baron Heathfield, known as the Defender of Gibralter.

(West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council: Michelmore, D (Archaeology Unit Report): General Elliott, Vicar Lane, Leeds: 1984-; Directories of Leeds, 1809-1888; Heap, A: Research at Leeds Local History Library: 1985-).

Listing NGR: SE3036333514