Description

YORK

SE6051NE NAVIGATION ROAD
1112-1/17/796 (West side (off))
24/06/83 Rowntree Wharf
(Formerly Listed as:
NAVIGATION ROAD
Foss Warehouse)

II

Leetham's flour rolling mills; now flats. 1896, converted
c1990. By WG Penty for Sidney Leetham. Orange-brown brick in
English garden-wall bond on stone plinth; weather-boarded
clerestory with slate roof; moulded stone gable coping and
stone string courses; glazed and slated canopy on cast-iron
columns.
PLAN: Irregular rectangle.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys and set back clerestory attic: 4-bay
entrance front with shaped gable to east towards Navigation
Road; 20 and one half bays on north side to Foss Navigation;
17-bay south side to Wormald's Cut, linked by canted 3-bay
front to 9-storey west tower at confluence of Cut and
Navigation. North and south sides articulated by pilaster
strips supporting stepped and corbelled frieze and cornice
beneath eaves string course and plain brick parapet: canted
front on south side is round arcaded beneath stepped parapet.
Entrance front has two inserted doors in altered
segment-arched openings on ground and first floors, linked on
first floor by walkway to adjacent car-park. Other openings
are windows and include oculus with glazing bars in gabled
attic. Scrolled tie rod ends exposed. North side has
cantilevered walkways to ground floor end bays and full width
of first floor serving double door entrances. Right of centre
bay projects from third floor upwards as gabled lucam, now
fenestrated. South side has full-width canopy over ground
floor openings. Square west tower has corbelled cornice and
eaves string beneath stepped parapet. 6 lower storeys have
rounded corners; upper storeys, slightly corbelled out, have
canted corners: on south side, embattled turret with vertical
slit openings rises through upper 3 storeys. On north side,
double doors inserted on first floor open on to walkway. To
left, 6- or 8-pane vertical windows light lower storeys. At
west end, lower storeys have 3-light windows recessed in tall
brick panel: upper storeys have pairs of 2x8-pane casements
over sillstring. Throughout, double doors have small-pane
glazing and fanlights. Windows are 2- or 3-light small-pane
mullioned casements, generally taller on ground floor, with
segmental brick arches and stone sills. Windows inserted in
former loading bays have shallow balconies with plain
balustrades. Gantries and hoists indicating building's
original purpose are retained in several places.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6080251716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548497

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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