1-5, QUEEN'S COURT

SE3033SW 714-1/78/352

LEEDS QUEEN'S COURT (North side) Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)

GV II

Houses, workshops and shops. Mid C18 with later additions; restoration 1989. Dark red brick, Flemish and random bond, slate roofs. Rear wing of Nos 165A-169 Briggate (qv) with houses and workshops forming north and east ranges of Queen's Court, now shops. North range composed of 3 builds, from west: i) 3-storey, 7-window rear wing with remains of stone foundation course, C20 shop facade left, wide doorway with flanking windows to right, flat and cambered heads to openings, C20 frames; ii) 2-storey, 3-window block, inserted doorway centre, coving to eaves, tall brick stack; iii) 2-storey, 4-window block, eaves band, 2 tall stacks; right return is of irregular hand-made brick in random bond with a blocked round window to gable and blocked first-floor loading door. East range closing the east end of the court is of 2 storeys, the eaves lower than in the north range, original covered access way to Call Lane, centre. INTERIOR: ground floor examined during restoration: timber cross beams reused in west end. For history, see Nos 165A-169 Briggate (qv); probably part of the premises of a wool stapler and hatter in the early C19 and tea dealer in the mid-later C19. Rare survival of the compact type of building in the city centre which evolved during the later C18 and early C19. (Thornborough, P (West Yorkshire Archaeology Service): Queen's Court, Lower Briggate, Leeds: 1987-: 13).

Listing NGR: SE3027033303