Waterloo House

WATERLOO HOUSE, 58, WELLINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1255692
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Statutory Address:
WATERLOO HOUSE, 58, WELLINGTON STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1255692
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1976
Statutory Address 1:
WATERLOO HOUSE, 58, WELLINGTON STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
WATERLOO HOUSE, 58, WELLINGTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 29633 33447

Details

LEEDS

SE2933SE WELLINGTON STREET 714-1/77/433 (North side) 05/08/76 No.58 Waterloo House

GV II

Warehouse, now offices. 1868, restored c1977. By Edward Birchall. For Walter Stead. Ashlar, polychrome brick, stone dressings, slate roof with late C20 dormers. Gothic Revival style. 4 storeys over basement, 7 bays. Entrance bay 6 with porch of polished pink granite columns with carved capitals supporting stone roof. Ground floor: ashlar, moulded depressed arch windows with pilaster shafts and carved capitals. 1st and 2nd floors: windows in pointed-arch arcade with brick pilasters and moulded capitals. 3rd floor: narrow windows in an arcade of 21 round arches. Heavy stone modillion cornice with cast-iron cresting and octagonal brick finials with stone caps. INTERIOR: gutted by fire c1977, rebuilt. Walter Stead was a cloth manufacturer at No.60 Wellington Street in 1870, next door to his warehouse; by 1886 the building was the woollen warehouse of Joshua Wilson and Sons. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-: 304; Directories of Leeds, 1870 and 1886).

Listing NGR: SE2963333447

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Sources

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Directory of Leeds, (1870)
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 304

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