Description

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SE33NW
714-1/7/1024

LEEDS
Oakwood
ROUNDHAY ROAD (South East side)
No.492
The Oakwood Fish Bar

28/07/86

GV
II

Fish bar facade with accommodation and offices above. c1890, altered c1938-40.

Three storeys, upper part of coursed stone with ashlar details and shaped gable. Four-light cross mullion window to first floor, and similar three-light window above. Shop front of vitrolite, metal and glass with bakelite, metal and neon lettering. Modern style. Recessed two-leaf door with half-segment glazed panels, circular shop window right, with metal glazing bar divisions, lower segment acid-etched and sand-blasted to represent waves. Frieze with neon lettering: 'FISH BAR'.

INTERIOR: vitrolite panelled walls.

Directory entries for the shop indicate that in the early 1930s this was the premises of Rowland Wilson, fruiterer. By 1940 it was the shop of Garside and Pearson, fried fish dealers.

Listing NGR: SE3267236858

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547715

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)