Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547456

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