Electric Press Building
ELECTRIC PRESS BUILDING, 39, COOKRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375221
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Electric Press Building
- Statutory Address:
- ELECTRIC PRESS BUILDING, 39, COOKRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375221
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Electric Press Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELECTRIC PRESS BUILDING, 39, 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:
- ELECTRIC PRESS BUILDING, 39, 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 29894 33956
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE COOKRIDGE STREET 714-1/75/134 (West side) 25/06/75 No.39 Electric Press Building
GV II
Printing works. c1900. For the firm of Chorley and Pickersgill. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof, wrought-iron gates and overthrow, steel frame. 3 storeys with attic and basement. Corner site with 9 windows to Cookridge Street, 3 windows to Great George Street. Curved corner with segmental arch entrance with Tuscan columns, carved head keyblock, carved spandrels, dentilled cornice and balustrading above fronting 2-light round-arched window; similar window to 2nd floor. A similar blind entrance with columns, cornice and balustrade at the centre of the right return, a goods entrance far right with hinged double panelled doors and a narrower entrance with double doors to right again. Ground-floor windows: large, segmental headed with moulded architraves and keyblocks. Large round-arched moulded brick windows to 1st and 2nd floors; pedimented dormers face Cookridge Street. Stone plinth, sill bands, heavy dentilled cornice with acroteria above. A tall corniced chimney stack at the NW corner has 'THE ELECTRIC PRESS' in white tiles. INTERIOR: the goods entrance opens into an open high ground floor, columns and girders with raised lettering: 'LEEDS STEEL WORKS'; offices possibly at S end, not seen at Review. The narrow door far right opens into a stone stair; 1st and 2nd floors have a central row of Tuscan columns with double roll mouldings; half the 1st floor has an inserted steel-framed mezzanine floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: fine double gates and overthrow with husk motif, scrolls and monogram 'CP'. Built on the opposite corner to the office premises, No.4 Great George Street (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2989433956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466103
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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