No. 40 Boar Lane

40, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 5DA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255885
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: No. 40 Boar Lane
Statutory Address:: 40, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 5DA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255885
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: No. 40 Boar Lane
Statutory Address 1:: 40, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 5DA

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

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:: 40, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 5DA

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 29955 33384

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 August 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

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LEEDS BOAR LANE (South side) No.40

(Formerly listed as The Observatory, previously listed as CITY SQUARE Midland Bank)

19/03/70

GV II

Bank, now cafe and bar. 1899, altered C20. By WW Gwyther. For the Yorkshire District Banking Company. Ashlar, copper-covered dome topped by railing. On an important corner site between Boar Lane and Bishopgate Street, the entrance facing towards City Square.

One principal storey. Pedimented doorway with acroteria to corner flanked by three tall windows in moulded architraves with keyblocks, pulvinated friezes and pediments. Giant order of engaged Corinthian fluted columns supporting entablature surmounted by parapet with statues and urns. Carved coats of arms of Yorkshire cities in moulded rectangular panels above door and windows.

INTERIOR: entrance into large circular room with wall pilasters, moulded cornice, elaborate glazed dome with painted and stained glass. Replanned and refitted late C20.

Listing NGR: SE2995533384

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Legacy System number:: 465531
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.