Description

LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET
714-1/77/433 (North side)
05/08/76 No.58
Waterloo House

GV II

Warehouse, now offices. 1868, restored c1977. By Edward
Birchall. For Walter Stead. Ashlar, polychrome brick, stone
dressings, slate roof with late C20 dormers. Gothic Revival
style.
4 storeys over basement, 7 bays. Entrance bay 6 with porch of
polished pink granite columns with carved capitals supporting
stone roof. Ground floor: ashlar, moulded depressed arch
windows with pilaster shafts and carved capitals. 1st and 2nd
floors: windows in pointed-arch arcade with brick pilasters
and moulded capitals. 3rd floor: narrow windows in an arcade
of 21 round arches. Heavy stone modillion cornice with
cast-iron cresting and octagonal brick finials with stone
caps.
INTERIOR: gutted by fire c1977, rebuilt.
Walter Stead was a cloth manufacturer at No.60 Wellington
Street in 1870, next door to his warehouse; by 1886 the
building was the woollen warehouse of Joshua Wilson and Sons.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
1978-: 304; Directories of Leeds, 1870 and 1886).

Listing NGR: SE2963333447

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547262

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]