Description

LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET
714-1/77/431 (North side)
Nos.52 AND 54
Blemann House and attached railings

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 3 King's House KING STREET.
Warehouse, now offices with basement railings. 1861 and 1870,
converted C20. By George Corson for William Ledgard. Ashlar
basement, rusticated to 1st floor, red brick with polychrome
brick and stone details, slate roof.
Venetian style. Corner site with King Street, 4 storeys over
basement, 14 x 8 first-floor windows, the 3 to right and King
Street left 2 windows in slightly projecting full-height
corner block.
Entrance left (No.54) has flanking columns with foliate
capitals supporting rusticated round arch with roll moulding
and deep cornice which is carried round the building as a
continuous string. Arched windows, possibly inserted doorway
centre, corner entrance far right with column and pilasters,
cornice over, rebuilt. Upper floors have flat, segmental and
round arched windows with 4-pane sashes, paired 3rd-storey
windows have baluster shafts and circular opening in arcade of
polychrome brickwork. Decorative band of zigzag brick work and
plain ashlar between 1st and 2nd floors. Deep modillion eaves
cornice.
Right return: central arched entrance as main front,
fenestration and decoration similar but sash windows to 3rd
floor; on left a square 1-stage tower with 3 narrow round
headed lights, bracketed eaves cornice, pyramid roof and
banded chimney; a stepped stack with bracketed cornice
straddles ridge, centre.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement railings: stone wall, geometric
openwork panels between standards with pointed finials.
One of the many warehouses built in the Wellington Street
area, close to the railway stations built on the S side
1846-56. George Corson took over his brother's architectural
practice in 1860 and the corner building, No.52 Wellington
Street and Nos 1-3 King Street, is one of the first he
designed, in a career which culminated in the Grand Theatre,
Municipal Buildings and the School Board Offices (qv) in the
late 1870s. No.54 was added in 1870.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-; Fraser, D (Ed): A History of Modern Leeds:
Manchester: 1980-: 134).

Listing NGR: SE2967333442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547302

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)