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{{See also|Architecture in Leeds}}
A large part of Chapel Allerton is a conservation area for the character and historical interest of its buildings, noted for a diversity of good quality domestic buildings from various periods.<ref name=LeedsPlan/>
The historic core is around Stainbeck Corner, particularly around Town Street and Well Lane, with 8 [[Listed building]]s. To the south and west of this is an area of grand detached houses with large gardens dating from the 18th and early 19th century.<ref name=LeedsPlan/> The earlier buildings are of fine-grained sandstone derived from the quarries which were once on Stainbeck Lane. These include a number of small 19th century two-storey houses as well as grander buildings.<ref name=LeedsPlan/> After 1890 brick terraced and [[back-to-back houses]] were built, but of better quality than workers' housing elsewhere in Leeds, as they were intended for artisans and the [[lower middle class]].<ref name=LeedsPlan/> The advent of the electric tram in 1901 made the area more accessible and further housing began to fill in empty spaces
[[File:Dominion Cinema.jpg|thumb|right|Dominion Cinema]]
After the [[Second World War]] further building and rebuilding continued, mostly unremarkable, though with a few examples of good modern design.<ref name=Faulkner/> The area was once home to an [[art deco]] [[movie theater|cinema]], the Dominion. Opened in 1934 and lasting only until 1967 when it operated as a bingo hall until the later part of the 1990, the cinema stood on Montreal Avenue. The residential street 'Dominion Close' is close to its former site.<ref name=leodis20028>{{cite web|url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002820_38171023&DISPLAY=FULL|title=Dominion Cinema, Montreal Avenue|first=Leeds City Engineers|last=Department|website=www.leodis.net|access-date=11 December 2018}}</ref>
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Clough House on Stainbeck Lane was converted to the Mustard Pot pub in 1979. It may date to 1653, and thus one of the oldest inhabited houses in Leeds, though most of the structure is from 1700 onwards.<ref name=Tucker/> On Wood Lane are [[Gothic style]] villas in sandstone dating from the second half of the 19th century for the middle classes.<ref name=Tucker/> Methley Place is an example of late 19th century terraces for the artisan class.<ref name=Faulkner/> The Hawthorns are a set of terraces built in the early 1900s in an unusual Manorial style.<ref name=Tucker/>
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File:AllertonHall01.jpg|Allerton Hall from Wensley Drive
File:AllertonHall02.jpg|Allerton Hall from Stainbeck Lane
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File:MethleyPlace01.jpg|Methley Place
File:HawthornsLS7.jpg|Hawthorn terraces
File:Gledhow Mount Mansion Chapel Allerton.jpg
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On Stainbeck Corner are a pair of linked buildings, originally constructed as a [[police station]] and a [[fire station]] in 1900, now a restaurant and public library. They are a grade II [[listed building]].<ref name=NHLE1256028>{{NHLE|num =1256028|desc=Chapel Allerton Library and Police Station|access-date = 14 April 2019}}</ref> The style is dressed sandstone with [[ashlar]] details. The main corner doorway is flanked by [[Italianate architecture|Tuscan]] columns supporting a segmental pedimented hood containing a [[cartouche]], and above this is a moulded and painted coat of arms of Leeds. The Harrogate Road doorways are Tudor-arched with rectangular [[fanlight]]s.<ref name=Tucker/> There is a bell turret and a clock. In 1904 the fire station was converted to a public library, with some amendments to the frontage style.<ref name=Tucker/> The interior features tiled walls with 'LPL' on them, a mosaic floor in the entrance hall, stained glass in doors and ionic columns.<ref name=NHLE1256028/> Further down Harrogate Road in the direction of Leeds is a brick and sandstone building bearing the sign "Leeds Board School 1878". This is still a school, Chapel Allerton Primary School. It is on the site of the Chapeltown Moor [[gallows]].<ref name=Tucker/>
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File:PoliceChapelAll.jpg|Former police station (left) and library (right)
File:Chapel Allerton Library Entrance March 2019.jpg|Library entrance
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The [[public house]] the ''Nag's Head'' opened in 1772 as the Bay Horse Inn, a coaching inn, and according to local legend the original innkeepers were in league with 18th century [[highwaymen]].<ref name=Tucker>J. R. Tucker ''Chapel Allerton Historical and Architectural Trail'' (1987) Manpower Services Commission</ref> The Regent was completed in the first half of the 19th century, and its exterior is little changed from that time.<ref name=Faulkner/> What is now called the Three Hulats was previously the Mexborough Arms. (The hulats are owls, of which there are three on the arms of the [[Earl of Mexborough]]<ref name=Savile>[http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/savile.htm Rotherham Web Genealogy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060457/http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/genealogy/savile.htm |date=4 March 2016 }} Savile of Mexborough</ref>) The present building dates from 1911, replacing a 19th-century Mexborough Arms, a terminus for the horse tram service from Leeds, itself replacing the 17th century Bowling Green Tavern.<ref name=Faulkner/> The Mustard Pot was converted from a house built in 1653 into a pub in 1979 (see 'Houses' section above).
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File:NagsHeadChapAll.jpg|Nag's Head
File:RegentChapelAllerton.jpg|The Regent
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File:CloughHouse02.jpg|The Mustard Pot
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File:StMatthewChapelAll.jpg|[[St. Matthew's Church, Chapel Allerton|St Matthew's Church]]
File:MethodistChapelAllerton.jpg|Methodist Sunday School (now a community centre)
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