26, Stall Street

STALL STREET 656-1/41/1601 (West side) No.26

(Formerly Listed as: STALL STREET Lamb Hotel) 11/08/72

GV II

Public house, now office. c1787 at rear, rebuilt 1806 at front, refronted 1850, gutted and facade altered c1975. By William Pinch (1850 facade). MATERIALS: Limestone rubble with rendered front and Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Double depth plan with narrow street frontage, but widening out behind. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic. Ground floor is arcaded, with two arched windows and door, all with marginal glazing. Stone platband. Single C19 sash windows to upper floors: twelve/twelve to first floor, eight/eight to second floor. Cornice, parapet, mansard with single flat topped dormer with small paned sash, stone stack with pots. Rear elevation rubble with two eight/eight sashes to upper floor and two flat topped dormers, two/two, ridge stacks with pots. INTERIOR: Not inspected but known to have been largely gutted in c1975 by present tenants, a building society. HISTORY: This house was the Lamb Hotel' in 1787 when it was the departure point for Palmer's Mail coaches. It was partly or wholly rebuilt by the innkeeper Richard Banks in 1806, but later became a grocer's shop. By 1850 it had become Messrs. Solomon¿s, Furniture Broker, when the facade was rebuilt, but it reverted to being theLamb Hotel' in c1900, and remained so until c1975, since when it has been The Leeds Permanent Building Society.

Listing NGR: ST7503364633