Henry Moore Centre For the Study of Sculpture
HENRY MOORE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SCULPTURE, 11-17, COOKRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375207
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Henry Moore Centre For the Study of Sculpture
- Statutory Address:
- HENRY MOORE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SCULPTURE, 11-17, COOKRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375207
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Henry Moore Centre For the Study of Sculpture
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENRY MOORE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SCULPTURE, 11-17, COOKRIDGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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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:
- HENRY MOORE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SCULPTURE, 11-17, COOKRIDGE 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 29905 33855
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET 714-1/75/131 (West side) 07/08/86 Nos.11-17 (Odd) Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture (Formerly Listed as: COOKRIDGE STREET (West side) Nos.11-17 (Odd))
GV II
Also known as: No.74 THE HEADROW. Offices and warehouses, now the Henry Moore Centre. 1840-47, restored 1992. Dark red brick, Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings; slate roof. 2 and a half storeys with basement, 16 first-floor windows in 12 bays divided by pilasters, in Classical style. Corniced ashlar basement has plinth blocks to giant pilasters with moulded bases and caps which support 1st-floor frieze with moulded string and cornice; ground-floor unity given by archivolts above all openings; attic cornice and blocking course. Bays 2, 4, 7 and 11 have tall narrow panelled doors with overlights; windows: 16-pane sashes some replaced by plate glass, those to bays 1, 5, 8 and 12 paired, bays 3, 6, 9 and 10 single; basement windows mostly boarded up, formerly protected by iron railings, some surviving; moulded sills, lintels and archivolts to ground floor, moulded sill bands and cambered gauged brick arches to first floor, on attic floor shorter with plain stone sills and similar arches. Ridge stacks with multiple flues to ends and flanking bays 7-8. South front has black polished marble facade, 1992, forming new entrance to sculpture gallery. Rear: basement is at ground level; 2 projecting gabled wings, many openings boarded up, some 16-pane sashes remain, with cambered gauged-brick arches and stone sills, 1st- and 2nd-floor sill bands. Between the wings a wide segmental-arched loading door to ground floor (bricked up) in projecting bay, and a tall round-arched stair window. Paired modillion gutter brackets. Later additions and alterations. INTERIOR: street doors open into narrow halls with a steep flight of stairs opposite; some original plaster ceiling cornices and doors, window shutters; the originally separate offices now interconnected and later inserted partitions. Similar in style to Nos 19 & 21 (qv); No.13 was the office of
George Corson from 1870-76 when he moved into No.25. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of an important group of mid C19 warehouses with facades copying the converted C18 town houses of Park Place, York Place etc. and contrasting with Gothic-style warehouses close to the Wellington Street stations designed by George Corson and others from the 1860s onwards. Directory entries show that No.17 was a Roman Catholic school and rectory c1849-c1867. (Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects (Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson): 1937-).
Listing NGR: SE2990233875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466089
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Butler Wilson, T, Two Architects Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson, (1937)
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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