Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET
714-1/75/132 (West side)
07/08/86 Nos.19 AND 21

GV II

Offices and warehouses. 1840-1847, restored 1992. Orange-pink
brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; slate roof.
2 and a half storeys with basement, 5 bays, 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 paired modillion cornice; central 3
bays of attic storey break forward; attic cornice. Outer bays
have paired windows, having archivolts to ground-floor
windows; similar central single bay flanked by entrance bays
having console-pedimented architraves to doorways, the left
one with tall, narrow-panelled double door, the right one
part-blocked in 1923 and reopened 1992.
Windows: basement openings blocked, 16-pane sashes throughout,
some with plate glass; ground floor with moulded sills,
lintels and archivolts, on 1st floor with moulded sill band
and cambered gauged brick arches, on attic floor shorter with
similar arches. Tall multi-flue end stacks. Rear: gabled wing
on right has cambered gauged brick arches and stone sills to
windows and 1st-floor and attic-floor bands.
INTERIOR: not examined in detail, original ceiling cornices,
doors and window shutters.
Originally occupied by Joseph Lambert & Co, wool merchant.
Although purpose-built as office and warehouse accommodation
the design copies the C18 private houses in Park Row and Park
Square which were converted into warehousing and offices mid
C19 as occupiers moved out of the city centre.
(Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SE2990233875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656022

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  For the Record