27 and 29 Wellington Road and 8-16 (even) Nelson Street

A textile wool warehouse with offices and shops dating to 1868, possibly designed by RT Johnson, later converted to apartments in the late 20th century.

The building stands in the Dewsbury Town Centre Conservation Area, constructed of buff sandstone with a slate roof. It is L-shaped in plan, facing south and west, abutted on the east by 2-6 (even) Nelson Street and 1 and 1a Wellington Street.

The building displays three storeys with a basement on the Wellington Road frontage and four storeys on the Nelson Street frontage, executed in a free Venetian Gothic style.

On Wellington Road, the six-bay frontage features a pinnacled, gableted pilaster-buttress to the left, and at the right the upper floor has a similar gableted turret supported by a twisted colonnette. The ground floor is constructed of ashlar while the upper floors are rock-faced. The eaves are finished with moulded stone corbels in the manner of a Lombardy frieze. Each upper floor has continuous sill and lintel bands with paired windows featuring moulded mullions. The second-floor windows are lancets, while the first-floor windows have shouldered heads beneath low two-centred arches with incised decoration in the tympana. The ground floor is arcaded with shouldered-head openings beneath similar arches, each containing a small patera-vent in the tympanum, with complex incised decoration between the openings. Bays 3, 5 and 6 (from the left) contain doors, those in bay 5 being original Gothic-panelled examples. The other bays have blocked basement windows and ground-floor casements. The upper floors retain original vertical-sliding sashes with horns to most openings.

The three-bay curved corner frontage to the south displays similar detailing and is flanked on the right by a matching turret with colonnette. In the centre is a false gable with a shaped false chimneystack, below which sits a roundel containing blind plate-tracery with a stopped hoodmould. The date 1868 is incised above the central window. The windows are altered but the surrounds remain original, with that on the left occupying a former doorway.

To the right, on Nelson Street, are a further three bays with the same detailing, flanked on the right by a similar pilaster-buttress to that on Wellington Road.

Beyond this lies a symmetrical four-storey, six-bay frontage flanked by matching pilaster-buttresses. The detailing is similar but subtly different. Bays 1, 3, 4 and 6 have ground-floor shopfronts with replacement windows and fascias but original glazed doors with Gothic-edged panels. Above each shop are stacked three-light windows: arcaded on the top floor, Venetian with shouldered heads on the second floor, and lancets beneath a low two-centred arch on the first floor. Bays 2 and 5 have ground-floor entrances with replacement doors and stacked single-light stair windows above. Various tympana contain incised decoration.

The Back Nelson Street facades are plain with stone sills and lintels to openings. A vertical joint with a change in coursing and a slight outward step marks where the building is abutted by the adjacent building to the east.

Internally, the building retains original staircases and balustrades, together with some cornicing and architraves.