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Latitude: 53.7888 / 53°47'19"N
Longitude: -1.5367 / 1°32'12"W
OS Eastings: 430622
OS Northings: 432593
OS Grid: SE306325
Mapcode National: GBR BLP.GM
Mapcode Global: WHC9L.C1H9
Plus Code: 9C5WQFQ7+G8
Entry Name: Alf Cooke Ltd Packaging (Cookes Printers)
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255574
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465887
ID on this website: 101255574
Location: Pottery Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Hunslet St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Printery
LEEDS
SE3032NE HUNSLET ROAD, Hunslet
714-1/81/869 (South West side)
05/08/76 Alf Cooke Ltd Packaging (Cooke's
Printers)
II
Printing works. 1881, rebuilt after fire 1894. By Thomas
Ambler. For Alf Cooke Ltd. Red brick, terracotta and stone
dressings, slate roof of shallow hipped form, modillion
brackets to deep eaves. 3 storeys, 30 x 8 bays with splayed
corner bay carried up to clock tower.
Ornate corner entrance with pilasters, round arch with high
segmental broken pediment ornamented with scrolls and oval
plaque with the owner's initials in the tympanum. Facade to
Hunslet Road: moulded string courses; ground floor has
alternate segmental-headed windows and projecting bays with
pedimented gabled canopies over small semicircular-headed
windows; 1st floor arcaded with elliptical arches of alternate
stone and brick on pilasters with dentilled impost; 2nd floor
has 2-light round-headed windows with slender columns between.
Right return: similar pattern of openings but without
ornament, especially to ground floor. Clock tower over corner:
square on plan, corner pilasters, dentilled cornice, dome with
large finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected but reputed to contain cast-iron
columns supporting mezzanine floors with offices to 1st and
2nd floors, the central area being left open; access to upper
levels via 2 spiral staircases and one conventional corner
stair.
Alf Cooke established his printing business in 1872, producing
cheap prints of art works for the mass market. The original
works burnt down in 1880 and its replacement was partly
destroyed in 1894. Thomas Ambler was responsible for most of
the Boar Lane buildings as well as St Paul's House, Park
Square (qv).
(Journal of Victorian Society, West Yorkshire Branch:
Higenbottam CJ: Thomas Ambler (1838-1920), Architect, of
Leeds: 1988-: 18).
Listing NGR: SE3062232593
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