The Leeds Permanent Building Society

The Leeds Permanent Building Society is an office building, now functioning as a bank, constructed around 1840 to 1850. It is built of ashlar and features a parapeted roof that is not visible. The building has a double-depth plan with rear extensions and is designed in a classical style with influences from the Greek Revival.

The exterior consists of three storeys and has a symmetrical three-window range, with a recessed panel to the left. It is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course over a band that serves as a continuous lintel for the three second-floor windows. These windows have one horizontal glazing bar and margin panes in each sash, with vertical lines incised between the lintel band and the cill band on either side.

The first floor features a raised architrave with a moulded cornice and acroteria at the center and ends, framing three semicircular-arched plate-glass sash windows that have patera in the spandrels. A projecting cornice at the first-floor cill level is situated above an entablature supported by four fluted Corinthian columns, which flank the door and windows.

The building has 20th-century louvred fanlights above the 20th-century plate-glass windows and doorcase, with an egg-and-dart lintel over an overlight and 20th-century double doors. To the left, there is a plain recessed panel that contains a 19th-century door with four raised-and-fielded panels, bolection moulding, and two overlights, the upper one featuring diagonal glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected.