The General Eliott Public House

The General Eliott Public House, 33, Vicar Lane, LS1 6DS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255794
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
The General Eliott Public House
Statutory Address:
The General Eliott Public House, 33, Vicar Lane, LS1 6DS
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1255794
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
The General Eliott Public House
Statutory Address 1:
The General Eliott Public House, 33, Vicar Lane, LS1 6DS

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
The General Eliott Public House, 33, Vicar Lane, LS1 6DS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 30363 33514

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 January 2024 to correct a typo in the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards

SE3033NW
714-1/76/405

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

GV
II

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

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Legacy System number:
465645
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Heap, A, Research at Leeds Local History Library, (1985)
Michelmore, D, Archaeology Unit Report in General Elliott, Vicar Lane Leeds, (1984)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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