78 and basement railings, Wellington Street

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LEEDS WELLINGTON STREET (North side) No.78 and basement railings

(Formerly listed as Concourse House)

05/08/76

GV II

Warehouse, now offices, and basement railings. Dated 1903, converted late C20. By George Corson and W Evan Jones with Perkin and Bulmer, associate architects. For Crowe and Co., wholesale warehousemen. Pink terracotta and red brick, probably steel-framed, roof not visible, wrought-iron railings.

Four storeys over basement, nine bays. Central projecting doorway with segmental pediment and moulded plaques with date and 'C & Co' in tympanum. Flat-arched basement windows, moulded elliptical arches to ground floor, moulded sill band and cornice above. second, third and fourth floors have recessed canted bays in moulded surrounds all in terracotta with keyblocks, ornate terracotta relief friezes between storeys. Plain parapet, shaped over outer two bays, central panel with fixings probably for name plaque. Left return: five bays, the left bays single and of two storeys, the roof line ramped up to full height to centre and right bays.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

One of the latest buildings with which George Corson was associated; he died in 1910. The firm of Crowe and Company were wholesale drapery, haberdashery and boot manufacturers and warehousemen by 1907.

(Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects: Brodrick and Corson: 1937-: 76; Directory of Leeds: 1907-).

Listing NGR: SE2947033482