Electric Press Building

The Electric Press Building is a printing works constructed around 1900 for the firm of Chorley and Pickersgill. It features red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, along with wrought-iron gates and an overthrow, and has a steel frame. The building stands three storeys high with an attic and basement, located on a corner site with nine windows facing Cookridge Street and three windows on Great George Street.

The design includes a curved corner with a segmental arch entrance supported by Tuscan columns, featuring a carved head keyblock, carved spandrels, a dentilled cornice, and balustrading above that fronts a two-light round-arched window, with a similar window on the second floor. There is also a blind entrance with columns, a cornice, and a balustrade at the centre of the right return, a goods entrance on the far right with hinged double panelled doors, and a narrower entrance with double doors to the right again. The ground-floor windows are large and segmental headed with moulded architraves and keyblocks. The first and second floors have large round-arched moulded brick windows, and pedimented dormers face Cookridge Street. The building features a stone plinth, sill bands, and a heavy dentilled cornice with acroteria above. A tall corniced chimney stack at the northwest corner displays the words 'THE ELECTRIC PRESS' in white tiles.

Inside, the goods entrance leads into a high open ground floor supported by columns and girders, with raised lettering that reads 'LEEDS STEEL WORKS'. Offices are possibly located at the southern end, though not seen during the review. A narrow door on the far right opens into a stone stairway. The first and second floors are characterized by a central row of Tuscan columns with double roll mouldings, and half of the first floor has an inserted steel-framed mezzanine.

The building also features fine double gates and an overthrow adorned with a husk motif, scrolls, and the monogram 'CP'. It is situated opposite the office premises at No. 4 Great George Street.