Description

LEEDS

SE3033SW LAMBERT'S ARCADE
714-1/78/234 (South side)
05/08/76 No.2
(Formerly Listed as:
LAMBERT'S ARCADE
House in south-west corner of
Lambert's Arcade)

II

House and workshop, now workshops. Probably late C16, altered
late C18/early C19 and early/mid C20. Timber-frame rendered
and encased in boarding; slate roof; brick stack left. A
3-storey gabled bay facing into the yard to rear of No.165
Briggate (qv) but not apparently structurally linked to it,
nor to the range to left (east). A narrow outshut on the east
side is probably an early C17 addition and contains a slightly
later brick stack.
C20 door and window frames; jettied first and 2nd floors, the
top-floor jetty not extending the full width of the gable. C20
tongue-and-groove boarding to 1st and 2nd floors; purlin ends
project at gable.
INTERIOR: a substantial vertical post, boxed in, against the
first-floor partition wall with Queen's Court south range;
2nd-floor room lined in tongue-and-groove boarding as
frontage; some evidence of cased-in posts and bracing. The
roof has king post trusses with raked struts from tie-beam to
principal rafters and straight braces from king post to ridge
purlin. The trusses are without infill, closure being effected
by means of plaster on laths nailed to the outer faces of the
timbers.
A late C19 sketch shows that it was then rendered over and had
small-pane sashes and a cellar window to left of the door.
Rare, possibly unique, survival of part of a timber-framed
house of the late C16. The thorough casing of the building
inside and out makes the extent of survival of timbering
impossible to deduce; the siting suggests that it stood behind
earlier houses or market booths on Briggate frontage and
probably extended further east.
(RCHME Interim Report, July 1995, NBR No.65319).

Listing NGR: SE3025633308

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655885

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