11 and 13 Zetland Road

Former printing works and offices built for H G Reid of the Northern Daily Gazette.

The building comprises two structures constructed in separate phases on rectangular plots between Zetland Road and Brunswick Street, with principal elevations facing north onto Zetland Road. Both are four storeys with basements, constructed in brick faced with carved sandstone ashlar and roofed in Welsh slate.

13 Zetland Road was built between 1865 and 1871 by W H Blessley in the Italianate style. It has two wide bays. The ground floor features a four-bay colonnaded centre with alternately round and square columns; the round columns have quasi-Composite capitals. The first three bays have stall risers with glazing above, whilst the altered entrance door to the right end bay has an overlight. Above is a frieze and bracketed cornice. The building has slightly projecting rusticated quoins carried up to the third-floor sills, then continuing to cornice level by panelled pilasters. The first and second floors have paired round-headed windows, whilst the third floor has Caernarvon-headed windows, all slightly recessed behind panelled and plain pilasters. The windows have enriched archivolts and lintels, keyed on the second and third floors and supported by pilasters. The sill band on the second floor is panelled; the third floor has a dentilled sill string. All window glazing has been replaced. The eaves cornice is bracketed with a shallow straight parapet.

11 Zetland Road was constructed between 1888 and 1893 to designs by R Lofthouse in the Northern Renaissance style. It is taller than number 13 and has four bays with a gabled centre and a three-bay ground floor with attics. There are steps up to both end panelled doors with overlights, the left now replaced by a grille. The doors have chamfered jambs and enriched pilaster-and-continuous-entablature surrounds. The wide middle bay contains a basket-headed three-light moulded mullioned-and-transomed window with altered glazing, above which is a fluted-keyed archivolt and richly carved spandrels with escutcheons; the right escutcheon is dated 1893. Three basement windows are blocked. The upper floors have moulded cross windows in enriched surrounds that are quasi-Composite, except for Roman Doric on the third floor. A foliate scroll frieze appears above the first-floor windows. The entablature is enriched beneath a panelled straight parapet with ball finials at the ends. At attic level is a shaped gable with similar acroteria, featuring paired casement windows in fluted pilaster-and-entablature surrounds with festoons in the frieze.

The Brunswick Street elevation, facing south, is composed in three gabled parts: the left section is three bays over four storeys; the central stair tower section is one bay over five storeys; the right section is four bays over five storeys. The left four-bay section was constructed in 1893 and features sash windows within segmental arched openings with stone sills. The left and central parts are twentieth-century extensions, also with segmental arched openings containing sashes. All sections have plain brick facades: the first two parts are in stretcher bond, whilst the right section uses English bond.