Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/08/2018

SE 3033 NW; 714-1/76/268

LEEDS,
NEW YORK ROAD (North East side),
Crispin House

GV

II

Former clothing factory, used for manufacturer of orthopaedic
appliance footwear when surveyed. 1914-1916, extension dated 1926. Red
brick, white faience (probably Marmo) dressings, roof not
visible. Corner site with North Street, 4-storeys with
basement, 17 bays with corner bay and three bays to North Street;
addition at E end of five storeys and six bays.
The main corner entrance has glazed double doors and pilasters
with decorated Ionic capitals dividing the bays which are
entirely glazed; clock to second floor, corner crowned with a
dome supported on a low wall with paired windows, dentilled
cornice, metal-clad dome, bud finial. Bays 7 and 17: entrances
with large circular overlights, door and window lintels of
Marmo, moulded string course carried over doorways as
segmental hoods; right entrance bay has pilastered upper
floors and small rectangular and round window.
Large windows to each floor, segmental-arched basement
windows, rectangular to ground and 1st floors, segmental heads
with three 'keystones' on second floor; extending to sills of square
3rd-floor windows, all with metal pivoted frames. Dentilled
cornice, blocking course, parapet with blocking piece over
entrances, geometric metal balustrade.
Rear (to Trafalgar Street): proportions as front, Marmo used
only for keystones and cornice, entrance right. The 1926
extension is in the same style, the right (entrance) bay wider
and with triple windows to upper floors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the building is described in some detail in
the Yorkshire Post's Tercentenary Supplement, July 1926. It
was built 'on modern fire-proof lines', with a floor-space of
5,000 square yards; basement canteen, cutting, sewing,
pressing rooms, stock and show rooms. Henry and William Heaton
joined a small wholesale clothing business in York Place in
1899; by 1903 the firm had moved to King Street and employed
over 100; in 1907 new premises were bought in Cookridge Street
and the firm was making mantles, coats and ladies' skirts; in
1911 the business moved to North Street and 'Alwetha'
raincoats were made. In 1914 the firm bought this site;
building was held up but the new factory was opened in July
1916, making clothing of various kinds for the Army and Navy.
By 1926 over 700 people were employed, a further 300 in the
extension, and the firm had representatives in seven countries
world-wide. In 1878 John Barran pioneered wholesale clothing
manufacture (St Paul's House, Nos 20 & 22 St Paul's Street
(qv)).
This building represents Leeds' principal connection with the
textile trade by the early C20.

Listing NGR: SE3050233958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656035

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Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)