Ambler House
14-18, BOAR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255881
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Ambler House
- Statutory Address:
- 14-18, BOAR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255881
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Ambler House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14-18, BOAR LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- AMBLER HOUSE, 2 AND 3, TREVELYAN SQUARE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 14-18, BOAR LANE
- Statutory Address:
- AMBLER HOUSE, 2 AND 3, TREVELYAN SQUARE
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 30141 33363
Details
LEEDS
SE3033SW BOAR LANE
714-1/78/40 (South side)
22/03/74 Nos.14-18 (Consecutive)
GV II
Includes: Nos.2 AND 3 Ambler House TREVELYAN SQUARE.
Shops, offices, storerooms and dining room. 1869-75. Early and
mid C20 alterations. Possibly by Thomas Ambler. Ashlar,
decorative fishscale grey slate roof. In Italianate style.
4 storeys with attic, 5 bays defining the separate properties
and designed as a symmetrical facade: a,b,c,b,a. Fenestration,
central bay: tripartite round-headed window to first and 2nd
floors with fluted pilasters, deep first-floor sill cornice
and triangular pediment to 2nd floor, centre; 3-light
shouldered arch window to third floor; balustered sill. Dormer
in segmental arch, pavilion roof.
Bays 2 and 4: C20 window to first floor, bay 2, was probably
identical to that in bay 4 which is tripartite, has fluted
pilasters and knob motif to architrave; 2nd floor has plain
architraves and fluted sill band surviving to bay 4.
Square-headed 3rd-floor windows, vertical banding to
architraves and diamond motif to sill band.
Central shop entrance with early C20 casing: pilasters with
festoons and cartouches under modillioned cornice; boarded C20
shop fronts. A pierced stone parapet is carried across the 3
central bays, the property divisions marked by plinths with
ornate ball finials, one surviving. Bays 1 and 5: two plain
rectangular windows to each floor, set slightly lower than the
central bays; splayed corners, oriel turret rising from 2nd
floor has mullion and transom windows and steep tent-shaped
spire above. Right return: 4 bays fenestrated as facade, bay
5; the right bay having a plain doorway with overlight and
smaller windows. Left return similar. Rear redeveloped and
rebuilt 1993.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: at the sale of land on the newly widened Boar
Lane in 1869 the block between White Horse Street and Gascoine
Street, (both formerly entrances to yards) was divided into 5
narrow lots having a frontage to the prestigious new road and
a deep 'backsides'.
The new buildings were carefully designed to take advantage of
the site and the details of the central bay, (No.16), are
similar to those on Nos 1-11 Boar Lane (qv), suggesting that
the same architect was involved.
In 1872 only No.16 was occupied, by Joseph Parkin, tailor. By
1875 the block was completed and occupied by: a chemist and
druggist together with the offices of the Singer Manufacturing
Company and a Mining engineer (No.14); the same chemist,
together with the Imperial Tea Company (No.15); as previously
(No.16); David Barnard, glass and china merchant (No.17); a
wine and spirits merchant (No.17); Horatio Blackburn
established a Dining Room (No.18).
(Porter T: Directory of Leeds and its Neighbourhood: Leeds:
1873-; White W: Directory of Leeds: Sheffield: 1875-).
Listing NGR: SE3014133367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465525
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Porter, T, Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, (1873)
Whites Directory in Leeds, (1875)
Legal
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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