A FORMER bank in Guiseley has been acquired by branded pub/bar specialists The Potting Shed to create its fourth Yorkshire venue.

Previously an HSBC branch, the site will undergo a remodelling, transforming it into the company’s latest bar and gardens.

The concept was created by Potting Shed Trading, founded in 2015 by the Leeds-based BurningNight Group, the team behind city centre Bierkeller Entertainment Complexes across the country.

The project is being backed by major industry investor Downing LLP which has invested £5.5million into the business.

It will add to Potting Shed’s contemporary gastro pubs, including its first site which opened in Bingley in 2015.

A further pub opened in Beverley, East Yorkshire, in August last year and a third site will open in Northallerton.