Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE EAST PARADE
714-1/75/162 (West side)
26/09/63 No.17A
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST PARADE
(West side)
No.17A
Hepper House)

GV II

Auction house offices and sale room. Dated 1863, alterations
c1911. By George Corson. For Hepper and Sons, auctioneers.
Harehills sandstone, granite and marble details, wrought-iron,
slate roof. Gothic Revival style.
2 storeys and basement, 3 gabled bays. Pointed arch to shallow
entrance porch left has paired attached polished granite
columns, fine gates of strapwork with flower and spiral
motifs. Two 3-centred-arch windows right have attached granite
shafts with carved capitals. 1st floor: large arcaded windows
have marble pilaster shafts and carved impost.
INTERIOR: entrance lobby has a flight of 4 stone steps, walls
decorated with terracotta tiles in Moorish flower and leaf
patterns, inner paired glazed doors in a glazed screen with
semicircular overlight; curved staircase with ramped handrail
and column balusters.
The ground floor has 2 sale rooms extending back from the
reception room: the main saleroom has coved ceiling, moulded
ribbed plasterwork, wooden panels with circular piercings, a
plain chamfered stone fire surround; the rear saleroom has a
coved ceiling and plain end fireplace. 1st floor: the front
room has coved ceiling with ventilation grilles and a marble
fireplace. Basement storerooms have paired moulded cast-iron
columns supporting large cross-beams, the front wall has
remains of the C18 walling and sills on the present building
line.
The ground-floor windows were altered c1911 by William
Bakewell when the Pearl Assurance building opposite (qv) was
found to have taken light from the property.
(Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects: Brodrick and Corson:
1937-).

Listing NGR: SE2977033753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656161

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