History in Structure

19 and 21, Cookridge Street

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

More Photos »
Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8004 / 53°48'1"N

Longitude: -1.5475 / 1°32'50"W

OS Eastings: 429902

OS Northings: 433881

OS Grid: SE299338

Mapcode National: GBR BJK.5G

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6QCX

Plus Code: 9C5WRF23+52

Entry Name: 19 and 21, Cookridge Street

Listing Date: 7 August 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375211

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466093

ID on this website: 101375211

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Leeds St George

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: Building

Find accommodation in
Leeds

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

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.