21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET, 40 AND 41, AIRE STREET
21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255730
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET, 40 AND 41, AIRE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255730
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET, 40 AND 41, AIRE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 40 AND 41, AIRE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 23, WELLINGTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40 AND 41, AIRE 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 29686 33399
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465719
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Directory of Leeds, (1903)
The Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury in 26 July, (1906)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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