Description

LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET
714-1/77/425 (South side)
No.17
Churchill House

GV II

Woollen warehouse, now offices. Mid C19, converted C20.
Probably by George Corson. Red brick, stone dressings, slate
roof.
4 storeys over basement, 7 bays. Pilaster far right. Steps up
to central doorway in Moorish-style archway with paired
columns in reveals and circular overlight, paterae carved in
the spandrels. Rusticated basement with flat-arched windows;
pointed arches to ground floor, the central window on the
right larger and with plate tracery. A deep moulded cornice at
1st-floor level projects over entrance and over the pilaster,
right, which has a carved stone plaque with circular panel.
1st, and 2nd-floor windows: segmental-arched, stone
architraves, keyed to 1st floor, stone sills. 3rd floor:
paired round-headed arches with colonnettes between, ashlar
band and continuous moulded sill. A plain band below the sill
is deepened for name plaque at centre and extends over the
pilaster far right which is terminated by a circular plaque
carved with a fleece. Modillion eaves cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Probably built shortly before 1859, the date of No.19, right
(qv); part of the extensive development between Aire Street
and King Street built in response to the need of woollen
merchants for warehousing close to the railway stations.
George Corson designed the very similar warehouses immediately
to the east for William Lupton and D and J Cooper (demolished)
and the pilaster on the right suggests that this building in
fact extended further east. In 1861 No.17 was the warehouse of
Thomas Pawson, Son and Martin, woollen manufacturers and
merchants who owned Stonebridge Mill, Wortley.
(Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects: Brodrick and Corson:
1937-: 48; Directory of Leeds: 1861-).

Listing NGR: SE2972433399

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547293

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