19 And 21, Cookridge Street

19 and 21 Cookridge Street are offices and warehouses built between 1840 and 1847, with restoration completed in 1992. The building is constructed from orange-pink brick in Flemish bond, featuring ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It stands two and a half storeys high with a basement and has five bays in a Classical style. The corniced ashlar basement includes plinth blocks supporting giant pilasters with moulded bases and caps, which hold up a first-floor frieze with a moulded string and a paired modillion cornice. The central three bays of the attic storey project forward, topped with an attic cornice. The outer bays have paired windows with archivolts on the ground-floor windows, while the central single bay is flanked by entrance bays that feature console-pedimented architraves. The left doorway has a tall, narrow-panelled double door, and the right doorway was part-blocked in 1923 but reopened in 1992. The basement openings have been blocked, while the building features 16-pane sash windows throughout, some with plate glass. Ground-floor windows have moulded sills, lintels, and archivolts, while the first floor has a moulded sill band and cambered gauged brick arches. The attic floor windows are shorter and have similar arches. The building has tall multi-flue end stacks. At the rear, a gabled wing on the right has cambered gauged brick arches and stone sills for the windows, along with bands on the first and attic floors. The interior has not been examined in detail but retains original ceiling cornices, doors, and window shutters. The building was originally occupied by Joseph Lambert & Co, a wool merchant. Although it was purpose-built as office and warehouse space, its design mimics 18th-century private houses in Park Row and Park Square, which were converted into warehousing and offices in the mid-19th century as businesses moved out of the city center.