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LEEDS

SE3033SW DOCK STREET 714-1/78/154 (North side (off)) 05/08/76 Simpson's Fold Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: DOCK STREET, Aire And Calder Dock (North side) Simpson's Fold Warehouse)

GV II

2 warehouses, now storage for Waterways Board. Early C19, with C20 alterations. Ashlar plinth to basement, red brick above, stone dressings, slate roof to main block, C20 tile roof to north side infill block. South, entrance front: 4 storeys with attic, 4 segmental-arch openings to gable facade, 7 to side wall obscured by added range, lower 2 storeys white painted. Gable: a tier of loading doors to right of centre, platforms and rails, inserted loading door to first floor left; small-pane windows, some openings blocked; attic storey: central loading door flanked by lunette windows, pulley above. Projecting band at first, and 2nd-floor levels. Rear (to river): left gable of main block has 2 tiers of loading doors with platforms on brackets flanked by former sashes, the lower half of the windows bricked up; segmental arches to all openings; over both top doorways is an iron pulley under a segmental-arch canopy, lunette window above; narrower central loading door to gable, stone sills throughout. Infill block to right: 5 storeys, central loading doors with stone platforms on brackets flanked by 16-pane sashes, all openings have moulded brick segmental arches and reveals; heavy stone modillion cornice with pedimented parapet, brick stack. Right return: 7 openings, part obscured by adjacent building, the right 4-window section breaking forward, the left having a tier of loading doors flanked by sashes as north gable; first-floor band carried round from front. INTERIOR: not inspected. The plan of the buildings is shown on the 1847 Ordnance Survey map.

Listing NGR: SE3031833156

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