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SE 2421 NW
7/150

DEWSBURY CB
WELLINGTON ROAD EAST

Nos 3 and 5

II

GV

Wool textile offices and warehouse. C1880. Built for James Howgate
and Sons, in the Italianate style. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and
slate roofs with various ashlar stacks. 4 storeys plus basement.
Plain sashes throughout. Wellington Road front 6 days, to the right
a round-headed doorway with double panel doors and fanlight, to the
left 5 round-headed windows, all in moulded ashlar surrounds in
moulded impost bands and bracket keystones. Above a moulded cornice
and 6 round-headed window surrounds, above 6 shoulder arched windows
in moulded surrounds with keystones, above again 6 flat-headed
windows in moulded surrounds. Above a bracketed cornice with ball
finials. Curved corner entrance front, 5 bays, with projecting
central 3 bays. Central deeply moulded, round-headed doorway with
giant keystone and curved, double panel doors and fanlight, flanked
by single narrow round-headed windows with beyond larger similar
windows. Above a bracketed cornice and a Venetian window, with 3
round lights, the central one topped by a pediment. Either side
single round headed windows with laurel wreath carvings above. Above
a large central segment headed windows flanked by single round-headed
windows with linked moulded surrounds, either side single shoulder
arched windows. Above a central large segment headed window flanked
by narrower similar windows with moulded surrounds, and either side
further similar windows. Topped by a segmental pediment inscribed
JAMES HOWGATE & SONS. Branch Road front, 9 bays with identical
fenestration to Wellington Road front, plus deeply rusticated
basement. Warehouse front to Croft Road, 6 bay, 4 storey plus
basement. Rock faced ashlar. To the right a large round-headed east
entrance with double gates and a rusticated surround. To the left
2 round-headed windows with linked moulded surrounds, then a taking-
in door, and then a single round-headed window and door with linked
moulded surrounds. The upper 3 floors have the same window
arrangement, with from the left a pair of windows, a taking-in door,
a pair of windows and then a single window. The first floor has
round-headed windows with moulded surrounds. The second floor has
segment headed windows, and the top floor has flat headed windows.

Listing NGR: SE2447221863

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552782

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