Pye's Building

Pye's Building is a warehouse and office constructed around 1885. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar bands at each floor level, and has slate roofs. It occupies a roughly square double-depth plan, originally with the main office entrance on New Road, and features a 2-span roof with gables and chimney stacks facing New Road. The building is five storeys high, above cellars, with a two-bay frontage on New Road and a four-bay frontage around the corner on Damside Street.

The New Road facade is characterised by shallow pilaster strips, from which segmental arches with rusticated voussoirs spring, below a line of corbels that carry the gutter across the base of the gables. The main entrance doorway is positioned within a central pilaster strip, topped by a pediment, the cornice of which extends as a band across the facade. There are paired windows on the ground floor, flanked by the central pilaster, and single windows on each of the upper floors. The Damside Street side continues the pilaster articulation for one bay, followed by two bays containing altered, recessed loading bays with round-headed arches beneath strongly projecting gables supported by brackets, and a narrow fourth bay with openings similar to those in the first bay. Most of the upper-story windows contain sliding sashes with glazing bars.