17 Wellington Road

A textile (wool) warehouse of 1855, with alterations.

MATERIALS: buff sandstone walls and slate roof.

PLAN: roughly triangular with a north entrance and curved west side, abutted at the south by 19 Wellington Road and 7 Wellington Street.

EXTERIOR: prominently sited in the Dewsbury Town Centre Conservation Area, at the junction of Wellington Road and Wellington Street, and opposite the railway station.

In a Classical style and of three storeys plus a basement. The stonework is regularly coursed and has a rock-faced plinth up to ground-floor sill, with tooled stonework above. The curved main entrance bay faces north and has a Doric door surround with columns, and entablature with triglyphs and metopes (with paterae), and guttae. Stacked above are an architraved first-floor window with consoled cornice, and a lugged-architraved second-floor window. There is a moulded first-floor sill band and a modillioned eaves cornice. The entrance has an inserted modern doorway with render emulating voussoirs and a keystone.

The east front is of ten bays, and similarly-detailed. The ground-floor openings are arched with rock-faced, quoined surrounds. Bay 1 (from the left) has a segmental-arched basement door. There are flat-headed basement window openings (formerly served by areas), now all blocked or louvred, in all other bays except bay 7, which has a blocked doorway with inserted window. Bay 4 has a similar blocked doorway with inserted window and basement window opening. Bay 5 has a timber sliding sash window matching the original design, with arched upper sash of seven panes, over a six-pane lower sash. All other windows are pvc sashes with flat heads and no glazing bars.

The west front is also of ten bays and similarly-detailed. Bays 5 and 10 have doorways (inserted at Bay 10). Bays 6, 8 and 9 have basement openings just visible above the pavement. Bay 7 has an altered former doorway now with inserted window, matching that of Bay 5 on the east front. Bay 6 has an original timber sliding sash window (without horns) with upper sash of seven panes and replaced bottom sash. The roof is hipped at the south end.