Churchill House

Churchill House is a woollen warehouse, now used as offices, built in the mid-19th century and converted in the 20th century. It is likely designed by George Corson. The building features red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, standing four storeys above a basement with seven bays. There is a pilaster on the far right, and steps lead up to a central doorway framed by a Moorish-style archway, which has paired columns in the reveals and a circular overlight, with carved paterae in the spandrels. The basement is rusticated with flat-arched windows, while the ground floor has pointed arches, with the central window on the right being larger and featuring plate tracery. A deep moulded cornice projects at the first-floor level over the entrance and the pilaster, which has a carved stone plaque with a circular panel. The first and second-floor windows are segmental-arched with stone architraves, keyed to the first floor, and have stone sills. The third floor has paired round-headed arches with colonnettes between, an ashlar band, and a continuous moulded sill. Below the sill, there is a plain band that is deepened for a name plaque at the centre and extends over the pilaster on the far right, which is topped with a circular plaque carved with a fleece. The building has a modillion eaves cornice. The interior has not been inspected. It was probably constructed shortly before 1859, the date of the adjacent No.19, and is part of a larger development between Aire Street and King Street that catered to the needs of woollen merchants for warehousing near the railway stations. Corson also designed similar warehouses to the east for William Lupton and D and J Cooper, which have since been demolished. In 1861, No.17 served as the warehouse for Thomas Pawson, Son and Martin, woollen manufacturers and merchants who owned Stonebridge Mill in Wortley.