23-27, COOKRIDGE STREET, 19 AND 21, GREAT GEORGE STREET, 19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375214
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 23-27, COOKRIDGE STREET, 19 AND 21, GREAT GEORGE STREET, 19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375214
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 23-27, COOKRIDGE STREET, 19 AND 21, GREAT GEORGE STREET, 19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 19 AND 21, GREAT GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 23-27, COOKRIDGE 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:
- 19 AND 20, ALEXANDER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 19 AND 21, GREAT GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23-27, 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 33909
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET
714-1/75/133 (West side)
07/08/86 Nos.23-37 (Odd)
GV II
Includes: Nos.19 AND 21 GREAT GEORGE STREET.
Includes: Nos.19 AND 20 ALEXANDER STREET.
Shops, offices and warehouses. 1840-47 with later additions,
and alterations c1898, restored 1993-94. Pinkish-red brick,
Flemish bond to Cookridge Street and Great George Street,
otherwise English garden wall bond; ashlar dressings; roof not
visible. Occupies corner site: 3 storeys, part with basement,
and 4 storeys.
14 first-floor windows on Cookridge Street linked by recessed
bowed corner bay to 13 windows on Great George Street: wings
to rear of No.23 Cookridge Street and No.21 Great George
Street are linked by Nos 19 & 20 Alexander Street, later
forming internal courtyard.
Cookridge Street and Great George Street facades: 3 storeys
with basement, this and the ground floor of rusticated ashlar
with moulded string, frieze and blocking course. On Great
George Street: semi-subterranean basement windows protected by
iron railings; on ground floor, central 6-panel double door,
part-blocked doorway on right (to No.21), and deep embrasures
for windows with arches of incised voussoirs. Similar arch to
corner doorway, which has 4-panel double door with overlight
flanked by shop windows divided by moulded columns.
On Cookridge Street: early C20 shop fronts have panelled
pilasters, slender columns and curvilinear tops to shop
windows, deep friezes and dentilled cornices; door to No.29
formerly gave access to rear; doors to Nos 31 & 33 are set
back; No.35 has 6-panel door under large 8-pane overlight. 1st
and 2nd floors have 16-pane sashes with slightly cambered
gauged brick arches and stone sills, the 1st-floor windows of
the corner bay and central bay on Great George Street
emphasised, the former by its corniced ashlar architrave, the
latter by being set in segmental-arched embrasure; many of the
sashes wholly or partly replaced by C20 windows. Stacks to
eaves and ridge.
Rear: Nos 19 & 20 Alexander Street: 4 storeys, 4 bays. Windows
as before; the 3 left bays under shallow pediment with oculus
and ashlar coping; the right bay with inserted (or enlarged)
waggon entrance. Bay 2 was loading bay, formerly with a wide
segmental-arched 1st-floor door and a narrower 2nd-floor door
with iron hoist attached to wall on right.
Courtyard: Nos 23-35 Cookridge Street have 16-pane sashes as
before; late C19 and C20 porches and gabled single-storey
additions not of special interest.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Nos 23-25 originally occupied by Schunck Souchay & Co. Nos
31-37 originally occupied by William Smith, wool merchant
banker and proprietor of Wm Smith, Son & Co. In 1873 George
Corson bought the block of offices and warehouses at Nos 22-35
Cookridge Street and No.21 Great George Street for »10,000; in
1876 he moved his offices to No.25 Cookridge Street. In 1898
sold to Thomas Ambler (architect) who altered the ground floor
to provide further shops. Bought by Leeds City Council in
1936.
(Butler Wilson, T: Two Leeds Architects (Cuthbert Brodrick and
George Corson): 1937-: 53; CODA report: Devenish M: A Woollen
Merchant's Warehouse: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SE2990533909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466096
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Butler Wilson, T, Two Architects Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson, (1937), 53
Devenish, M, CODA report in A Woolen Merchants Warehouse, (1995)
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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