Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET
714-1/75/131 (West side)
07/08/86 Nos.11-17 (Odd)
Henry Moore Centre for the Study of
Sculpture
(Formerly Listed as:
COOKRIDGE STREET
(West side)
Nos.11-17 (Odd))

GV II

Also known as: No.74 THE HEADROW.
Offices and warehouses, now the Henry Moore Centre. 1840-47,
restored 1992. Dark red brick, Flemish bond, with ashlar
dressings; slate roof.
2 and a half storeys with basement, 16 first-floor windows in
12 bays divided by pilasters, in Classical style. Corniced
ashlar basement has plinth blocks to giant pilasters with
moulded bases and caps which support 1st-floor frieze with
moulded string and cornice; ground-floor unity given by
archivolts above all openings; attic cornice and blocking
course.
Bays 2, 4, 7 and 11 have tall narrow panelled doors with
overlights; windows: 16-pane sashes some replaced by plate
glass, those to bays 1, 5, 8 and 12 paired, bays 3, 6, 9 and
10 single; basement windows mostly boarded up, formerly
protected by iron railings, some surviving; moulded sills,
lintels and archivolts to ground floor, moulded sill bands and
cambered gauged brick arches to first floor, on attic floor
shorter with plain stone sills and similar arches. Ridge
stacks with multiple flues to ends and flanking bays 7-8.
South front has black polished marble facade, 1992, forming
new entrance to sculpture gallery.
Rear: basement is at ground level; 2 projecting gabled wings,
many openings boarded up, some 16-pane sashes remain, with
cambered gauged-brick arches and stone sills, 1st- and
2nd-floor sill bands. Between the wings a wide
segmental-arched loading door to ground floor (bricked up) in
projecting bay, and a tall round-arched stair window. Paired
modillion gutter brackets. Later additions and alterations.
INTERIOR: street doors open into narrow halls with a steep
flight of stairs opposite; some original plaster ceiling
cornices and doors, window shutters; the originally separate
offices now interconnected and later inserted partitions.
Similar in style to Nos 19 & 21 (qv); No.13 was the office of

George Corson from 1870-76 when he moved into No.25.
HISTORICAL NOTE: part of an important group of mid C19
warehouses with facades copying the converted C18 town houses
of Park Place, York Place etc. and contrasting with
Gothic-style warehouses close to the Wellington Street
stations designed by George Corson and others from the 1860s
onwards. Directory entries show that No.17 was a Roman
Catholic school and rectory c1849-c1867.
(Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects (Cuthbert Brodrick and
George Corson): 1937-).

Listing NGR: SE2990233875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Henry Moore Institute official website
• Wikidata Q26656018

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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