Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET
714-1/75/182 (North side)
25/10/94 No.4
Leonardo Building

GV II

Printing works, now offices. c1900. For the firm of Chorley
and Pickersgill. Red brick, ashlar, roof not visible.
4 storeys with attic and basement; 3- and 4-bay corner site
with Cookridge Street. Brick pilasters, moulded sills and
cornices to each floor and eaves. Angled entrance bay to
corner has panelled double doors with fanlight over in round
arch with fluted pilasters, impost blocks, console brackets
and triangular pediment in outer frame of pilasters, console
brackets and deep cornice. Bay window above of 4 lights with
transom, carries scrolled wrought-iron balcony to 2nd-floor
French window of 3 lights, blind panels to 3rd storey,
balustraded parapet, corner tower/ventilation shaft of 3
stages with paired round-arched windows, triangular pediment
and deep dentilled cornice and balustraded parapet.
Fenestration: segmental, and round-arched windows to 2nd
storey have keyed arches; segmental arches to basement and
flat to 1st and 3rd storeys; flat, and round-arched to 4th
storey. Outer bays on each return rise to pierced gable with
triangular pediment and ball finials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Similar date and style to the clothing mill at No.91 Great
George Street (qv). A Directory entry for 1897 indicates that
the printing firm of Sparks and Son was on or near this site,
and the building is illustrated in the 1905 directory as the
premises of 'Chorley and Pickersgill, The Electric Press,
every description of printing', indicating that these were the
offices to the printing works at No.39 Cookridge Street,
opposite (qv).
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1897-; Robinson's Directory of
Leeds: 1905-: 16).

Listing NGR: SE2993533947

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547787

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