17 Wellington Road

This is a textile (wool) warehouse, built in 1855 and subsequently altered. It is prominently situated within the Dewsbury Town Centre Conservation Area, at the junction of Wellington Road and Wellington Street, opposite the railway station.

The building is constructed of buff sandstone with a slate roof. The plan is roughly triangular, with a north-facing entrance, a curved west side, and abutting at the south with numbers 19 Wellington Road and 7 Wellington Street.

The warehouse is in a Classical style, standing three storeys high with a basement. The stonework is regularly coursed, featuring a rock-faced plinth up to ground-floor sill, and tooled stonework above. The curved main entrance bay facing north has a Doric door surround with columns, an entablature with triglyphs and metopes (containing paterae), and guttae. Above the door surround are an architraved first-floor window with a consoled cornice, and a lugged-architraved second-floor window. A moulded first-floor sill band and a modillioned eaves cornice complete the exterior detailing. A modern doorway has been inserted, rendered to mimic voussoirs and with a keystone.

The east front has ten bays, similarly detailed. Ground-floor openings are arched with rock-faced, quoined surrounds. Bay 1 features a segmental-arched basement door. Flat-headed basement window openings, originally serving as areas, are now blocked or louvred in all bays, except bay 7, which contains a blocked doorway with an inserted window. Bay 4 has a similar blocked doorway with an inserted window and basement window opening. Bay 5 retains an original timber sliding sash window matching the original design, with an upper sash of seven panes over a six-pane lower sash. The remaining windows are PVC sashes with flat heads and no glazing bars.

The west front is also of ten bays and displays similar detailing. Doorways have been inserted into bays 5 and 10. Basement openings are visible above the pavement in bays 6, 8 and 9. Bay 7 has an altered former doorway, now with an inserted window that matches that of bay 5 on the east front. Bay 6 retains an original timber sliding sash window (without horns) with a seven-pane upper sash and a replaced bottom sash. The roof is hipped at the south end.