Leonardo Building
LEONARDO BUILDING, 4, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256256
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Leonardo Building
- Statutory Address:
- LEONARDO BUILDING, 4, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256256
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Leonardo Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEONARDO BUILDING, 4, GREAT GEORGE 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:
- LEONARDO BUILDING, 4, GREAT GEORGE 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 29935 33947
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET 714-1/75/182 (North side) 25/10/94 No.4 Leonardo Building
GV II
Printing works, now offices. c1900. For the firm of Chorley and Pickersgill. Red brick, ashlar, roof not visible. 4 storeys with attic and basement; 3- and 4-bay corner site with Cookridge Street. Brick pilasters, moulded sills and cornices to each floor and eaves. Angled entrance bay to corner has panelled double doors with fanlight over in round arch with fluted pilasters, impost blocks, console brackets and triangular pediment in outer frame of pilasters, console brackets and deep cornice. Bay window above of 4 lights with transom, carries scrolled wrought-iron balcony to 2nd-floor French window of 3 lights, blind panels to 3rd storey, balustraded parapet, corner tower/ventilation shaft of 3 stages with paired round-arched windows, triangular pediment and deep dentilled cornice and balustraded parapet. Fenestration: segmental, and round-arched windows to 2nd storey have keyed arches; segmental arches to basement and flat to 1st and 3rd storeys; flat, and round-arched to 4th storey. Outer bays on each return rise to pierced gable with triangular pediment and ball finials. INTERIOR: not inspected. Similar date and style to the clothing mill at No.91 Great George Street (qv). A Directory entry for 1897 indicates that the printing firm of Sparks and Son was on or near this site, and the building is illustrated in the 1905 directory as the premises of 'Chorley and Pickersgill, The Electric Press, every description of printing', indicating that these were the offices to the printing works at No.39 Cookridge Street, opposite (qv). (Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1897-; Robinson's Directory of Leeds: 1905-: 16).
Listing NGR: SE2993533947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Leeds, (1897)
Robinsons Directory in Leeds, (1905), 16
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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