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78 and basement railings, Wellington Street

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7968 / 53°47'48"N

Longitude: -1.5541 / 1°33'14"W

OS Eastings: 429470

OS Northings: 433482

OS Grid: SE294334

Mapcode National: GBR BGL.RQ

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.3T7N

Plus Code: 9C5WQCWW+P9

Entry Name: 78 and basement railings, Wellington Street

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255694

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465729

ID on this website: 101255694

Location: Granary Wharf, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1

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: Leeds St George

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 August 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE2933
714-1/35/434

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

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