Yorkshire Bank
148, 149 AND 150, BRIGGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375353
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 148, 149 AND 150, BRIGGATE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375353
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 148, 149 AND 150, BRIGGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- YORKSHIRE BANK, 4, DUNCAN STREET
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:
- 148, 149 AND 150, BRIGGATE
- Statutory Address:
- YORKSHIRE BANK, 4, DUNCAN STREET
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:
- SE3025133416
Details
LEEDS
SE3033SW DUNCAN STREET
714-1/78/155 (North side)
07/05/92 No.4
Yorkshire Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIGGATE
(North side)
Nos.149-150 (Odd))
GV II
Includes: Nos.148, 149 AND 150 BRIGGATE.
Shop and offices, now bank. c1904, altered C20. By Percy
Robinson. For Messrs Hepworth. Terracotta by the Leeds
Fireclay Company, modelled panels by E Caldwell Spruce, slate
roof.
4 storeys with attics; corner site, 4 bays and narrower
entrance bay on left return (Briggate), corner bay, 3 bays and
narrower entrance bay to right, (Duncan Street). Baroque
Revival style.
Later C20 bank entrance and windows with probably original
rusticated pilasters at bay divisions to ground floor which
are carried up to eaves level; canted bay windows in
round-arched recesses to 1st and 2nd floors, paired attached
columns and recessed sashes to 3rd floor, round window on
corner; modillion eaves cornice, elaborate scrolled parapet,
round windows in ornate gables flanking octagonal turret with
ball finials and dome surmounted by slender finial. Moulded
decoration to sill bands, spandrels and framing round windows:
swags, scrolls, plaques, female figures.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A catalogue of photographs of newly-built examples of the
Leeds Fireclay Company's terracotta shows the original ground
floor fenestration (Kirkstall Museum archive).
Listing NGR: SE3025133416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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