Former The Odeon Cinema

Former The Odeon Cinema, 14-20, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255903
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: Former The Odeon Cinema
Statutory Address:: Former The Odeon Cinema, 14-20, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1255903
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: Former The Odeon Cinema
Statutory Address 1:: Former The Odeon Cinema, 14-20, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PT

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Former The Odeon Cinema, 14-20, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PT

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 30328 33758

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 August 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE3033NW 714-1/76/388

LEEDS THE HEADROW (North side) Nos.14-20 (Even) Former The Odeon Cinema

(Formerly listed as The Odeon Cinema)

15/10/93

GV II

Cinema and shops. 1930-32. Exterior designed as part of The Headrow development by Sir Reginald Blomfield, interior by Frank T Verity, altered 1969, 1978 and 1988. Steel-framed, faced in red brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. Classical style. Four storeys, seventeen windows. Rusticated ashlar ground floor with shop fronts. Upper three floors have ashlar pavilions with giant Doric pilasters and moulded ashlar window surrounds at bays one, eleven and seventeen. The whole topped by a balustrade and crowning urns.

Corner entrance to cinema: original fenestration and decoration survives but now obscured by later C20 signboards.

INTERIOR: no original features remain.

(Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial history: Leeds: 1990-: 43).

Listing NGR: SE3032833766

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 465469
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Heap, A, The Headrow a Pictorial history, (1990), 43

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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.