 Along with Cottage Road, the Hyde Park Picture House is one of only two surviving original single-screen cinemas in Leeds, down from peak numbers of between 60–70 in the 1930s.The Picture House retains many original features, including an external ticket booth, decorated barrel-vaulted ceiling and balcony adorned with a frieze of plaster festoons, brackets and shields.It is also the only cinema in the UK to retain "modesty" gas lights, designed to avoid complete darkness in the auditorium.