19 And 21, Cookridge Street

LEEDS

SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET 714-1/75/132 (West side) 07/08/86 Nos.19 AND 21

GV II

Offices and warehouses. 1840-1847, restored 1992. Orange-pink brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; slate roof. 2 and a half storeys with basement, 5 bays, Classical style. Corniced ashlar basement has plinth blocks to giant pilasters with moulded bases and caps which support 1st-floor frieze with moulded string and paired modillion cornice; central 3 bays of attic storey break forward; attic cornice. Outer bays have paired windows, having archivolts to ground-floor windows; similar central single bay flanked by entrance bays having console-pedimented architraves to doorways, the left one with tall, narrow-panelled double door, the right one part-blocked in 1923 and reopened 1992. Windows: basement openings blocked, 16-pane sashes throughout, some with plate glass; ground floor with moulded sills, lintels and archivolts, on 1st floor with moulded sill band and cambered gauged brick arches, on attic floor shorter with similar arches. Tall multi-flue end stacks. Rear: gabled wing on right has cambered gauged brick arches and stone sills to windows and 1st-floor and attic-floor bands. INTERIOR: not examined in detail, original ceiling cornices, doors and window shutters. Originally occupied by Joseph Lambert & Co, wool merchant. Although purpose-built as office and warehouse accommodation the design copies the C18 private houses in Park Row and Park Square which were converted into warehousing and offices mid C19 as occupiers moved out of the city centre. (Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1847-).

Listing NGR: SE2990233875