Rowntree Wharf

Rowntree Wharf is a former flour rolling mills building, dating from 1896, and later converted into flats around 1990. Designed by WG Penty for Sidney Leetham, it occupies an irregular rectangular footprint. The building is constructed of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond, set on a stone plinth. It features a weather-boarded clerestory and a slate roof, with moulded stone gable coping, stone string courses, and a glazed and slated canopy supported by cast-iron columns.

The main facade, facing Navigation Road, has a shaped gable and comprises four bays, while the north side, facing the Foss Navigation, has 20 and a half bays, and the south side, facing Wormald’s Cut, has 17 bays. A three-bay canted front links the south side to a nine-storey west tower at the confluence of the Cut and Navigation. Pilaster strips articulate the north and south sides, supporting a stepped and corbelled frieze and cornice beneath an eaves string course and plain brick parapet. The canted front on the south side has a round arcaded design beneath a stepped parapet.

The entrance front incorporates two inserted doors in altered segment-arched openings on the ground and first floors, and a walkway links the first floor to an adjacent car park. Other openings include windows and an oculus with glazing bars in the gabled attic. Exposed scrolled tie rod ends are present. The north side has cantilevered walkways to the ground floor end bays and a full-width walkway on the first floor. A gabled lucam projects from the third floor upwards, now fenestrated. A full-width canopy covers the ground floor openings on the south side.

The square west tower has a corbelled cornice and eaves string beneath a stepped parapet. The lower six storeys have rounded corners, while the upper storeys are slightly corbelled out and have canted corners. An embattled turret with vertical slit openings rises through the upper three storeys of the tower on the south side. Double doors have small-pane glazing and fanlights, and throughout, windows are 2- or 3-light small-pane mullioned casements, generally taller on the ground floor, with segmental brick arches and stone sills. Inserted windows in former loading bays have shallow balconies with plain balustrades. Gantries and hoists reflecting the building's original use have been retained. The interior was not inspected during the listing process.