Electric Press Building

LEEDS

SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET 714-1/75/134 (West side) 25/06/75 No.39 Electric Press Building

GV II

Printing works. c1900. For the firm of Chorley and Pickersgill. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof, wrought-iron gates and overthrow, steel frame. 3 storeys with attic and basement. Corner site with 9 windows to Cookridge Street, 3 windows to Great George Street. Curved corner with segmental arch entrance with Tuscan columns, carved head keyblock, carved spandrels, dentilled cornice and balustrading above fronting 2-light round-arched window; similar window to 2nd floor. A similar blind entrance with columns, cornice and balustrade at the centre of the right return, a goods entrance far right with hinged double panelled doors and a narrower entrance with double doors to right again. Ground-floor windows: large, segmental headed with moulded architraves and keyblocks. Large round-arched moulded brick windows to 1st and 2nd floors; pedimented dormers face Cookridge Street. Stone plinth, sill bands, heavy dentilled cornice with acroteria above. A tall corniced chimney stack at the NW corner has 'THE ELECTRIC PRESS' in white tiles. INTERIOR: the goods entrance opens into an open high ground floor, columns and girders with raised lettering: 'LEEDS STEEL WORKS'; offices possibly at S end, not seen at Review. The narrow door far right opens into a stone stair; 1st and 2nd floors have a central row of Tuscan columns with double roll mouldings; half the 1st floor has an inserted steel-framed mezzanine floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: fine double gates and overthrow with husk motif, scrolls and monogram 'CP'. Built on the opposite corner to the office premises, No.4 Great George Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SE2989433956