25 AND 27, DALE STREET (See details for further address information)

A large textile warehouse and workshop, built circa 1860-70 and later altered, now serving as a fashion warehouse and furriers’ premises. It occupies a corner site with its longer elevation facing Dale Street, and includes the address 22 Lever Street. The building is constructed of red brick with a sandstone ashlar plinth and dressings, the roof being concealed.

The structure has a rectangular plan, with a basement, two main floors plus an attic, and fourteen windows face Dale Street, while Lever Street has ten. The design incorporates a late-Georgian style. Both facades are symmetrical, featuring pilastered corners. The basement is treated as a rusticated plinth, and the ground floor is distinguished by banded pilasters. Sill bands are located on the first and second floors, punctuated by interrupted Lombard friezes. A prominent cornice runs above the third floor, and the attic is designed as a high parapet with front-wall chimneys rising through it.

The Dale Street facade has a prominent two-bay centre dominated by a giant, round-headed archway with a rusticated ashlar surround. This includes a large carved keystone, a cornice supported by fluted brackets with guttae, a panelled reveal, and a doorway protected by a large ornamental cast-iron grill. Pilasters frame the first-floor windows above the archway, and a square attic turret features three round-headed windows and a bracketed cornice. The ground floor windows have keystones and altered glazing, and there is a segmental-headed doorway with a panelled ashlar surround to the right-hand side. The upper floors primarily have four-pane sash windows. Three windows to the right of the centre on the fourth floor have raised heads that break through the frieze. The attic windows are coupled sashes with stone mullions, with corniced chimneys positioned between them; a set of chimneys on the right-hand side have been cut down.

The Lever Street facade is similar in design but lacks the attic turret and chimneys. The south side, facing Little Lever Street, comprises two bays in a matching style and a six-bay continuation. This section has four-pane sashed windows with gauged brick heads, and a four-stage segmental-headed former loading slot between the second and third bays. The rear of the building mirrors these features, with similar windows and loading slots between the third and fourth, as well as the seventh and eighth bays. The interior remains unexamined.

Historically, the property was occupied around 1900 by T.Oram & Co, a woollen manufacturer, and 22 Lever Street by Hollings & Sons, who produced costumes and mantles. The building forms a group with Sevendale House to the left, numbers 29 and 31 to the right, number 22 opposite, and 24 Lever Street to the rear.