Description

LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET
714-1/77/427 (South side)
22/07/88 Nos.21 AND 23

GV II

Includes: Nos.40 AND 41 AIRE STREET.
Clothing factory and warehouse, now shops and offices. Dated
1877-1900, converted C20. For RB Brown and Sons, wholesale
clothiers. Steel-framed with brick cladding and ashlar
dressings, glazed roof.
6 storeys; 3-bay facade with deep plan to Aire Street. Doric
columned portico to right has panelled double door under
scrolled transom with dated cartouche and plain fanlight;
moulded brick arch with raised ashlar voussoirs under open
segmental pediment. Later glazed doors to left; rest of ground
floor boarded up. 1st floor: transomed casements in rhythm
4:6:4 divided by panelled wooden pilasters.
Above the 2nd floor the facade is fully glazed with casements
in same rhythm set between brick piers with raised strips. The
central windows terminate under an elliptical arch with
keystone while outer bays have twin windows above impost band
of central arch. Cornice breaks forward over centre and each
pier; parapet with oeil-de-boeuf and ball finials is solid
over centre and rises as a shaped open pediment containing
ball finial with band.
Rear (facing Aire Street): full-height glazing to bays 1 and
2; bay 3 with transomed 5-light lavatory windows. Dentilled
brick cornice beneath attic with 13 narrow windows to bays 2
and 3.
INTERIOR: internal light-well roofed over at 3rd floor. An
impressive and early steel-framed building.
In 1906 the 'Great Fire of Leeds' destroyed No.25 and the
Great Northern Hotel; contemporary reports describe how the
premises of Brown and Son escaped damage: it was comparatively
new and arranged 'in the American system' with open floors,
fireproof walls, and a small water tank in the roof which fed
a sprinkler system.
(Directory of Leeds: 1903-; The Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury,
26 July 1906).

Listing NGR: SE2968633399

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547297

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)