English: 30-32: Pair of houses with entrance railings, now University of Leeds Department of Community Medicine. 1840, later C19 and C20 additions. Probably by John Clark. Red brick, Flemish bond, stone details, slate roof, wrought-iron details. 3 storeys over basement, 6 first-floor windows. Doors to outer bays have traceried overlights and pilastered surrounds with entablature and cornice. Added bay window to basement and ground floor left; tall sashes with flat brick arches and glazing bars to ground and 1st floors, 9-pane sashes to 2nd. A deep stone band at 1st-floor sill level and scrolled iron brackets to former balcony, 2nd-floor sill band. Stone cornice, blocking course and shallow pediment overall; large centre stack and end ridge stacks. Mid C20 attic storey. Railings flanking entrance steps: moulded terminals, pointed vase finials.
INTERIOR: reputed to retain columns in entrance hall to No.32 (left); in both houses the original staircase and ceilings survive.
No.30 was first occupied by Frederick Baines, partner with his brother Edward in the production of the Leeds Mercury; No.32 was first occupied by Edward Smith, woollen draper, tailor and undertaker whose premises were in Briggate.
34: House, now University of Leeds Department of Community Medicine. 1861. For William Bolland, proprietor of the Albert Nail Works, Hunslet. Red brick, stretcher bond, stone details, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys with basement, 5 bays. Stone plinth. Symmetrical facade, central entrance with pilastered surround, foliate capitals, entablature, dentilled cornice. Sashes in keyed architraves, first-floor and sill bands, modillion eaves cornice, pediment over central bay, end stacks. Left return: 5 bays, paired windows centre, slightly projecting stacks with narrow recessed panels to bays 2 and 4.
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