New York Buildings
New York Buildings, 1-19 New York Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375228
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- New York Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- New York Buildings, 1-19 New York Street
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375228
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- New York Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- New York Buildings, 1-19 New York 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:
- New York Buildings, 1-19 New York 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 30464 33466
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on the 8 February 2023 to amend details regarding architects in the description and reformatting text to current standards
SE3033SW
714-1/78/269
LEEDS
NEW YORK STREET (North side)
Nos.1-19 (Odd)
New York Buildings
GV
II
Cocoa house, workshops and offices, now shops and storerooms. 1880 by JW Baxendall, with later extension by William Belton Perkin. Brick, stone dressings, slate roof. Four storeys, three builds in similar style: i) three bays with two,one,two first-floor windows, left (1880); ii) a two-window bay (extant in 1880, probably following immediately on the coffee house itself); iii) eight bays with one single and seven paired first-floor windows, right (probably 1883). Left three bays and return: four square-section and two cylindrical mullions of the original facade support entablature and cornice; round-arched plate-glass sashes to first floor, linked hoodmoulds, moulded string above; five and three rectangular windows to second and third floors, moulded continuous sills; bracketed eaves cornice and brick patterning in small gables with stone kneelers and copings above the outer windows. The eight-bay block has a probably original shop facade to left of ground floor (No.13), round arches to first floor infilled with moulded tiles, three-light second-floor mullioned windows and four workshop windows in steeply pitched roof. Left return: a two-window bay flanked by curved corner bays with one and two windows, similarly detailed to the front; the corner bays have stone architraves to first-floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the west end of York Street was renamed New York Street when the block (later Nos 1-19, odd numbers only) was built. The 'Borough Arms Cocoa House', whose opening was reported in the August 1880 edition of The Coffee Public House News, was probably also the Leeds Central Cocoa House, York Street, in 1881 - Charles Burrow was the proprietor and was also a shoe dealer. Nos 1 & 3 York Street are entered in the Directories as 'Leeds Cocoa House Company' in 1890-91. The 'Central Cocoa House, Kirkgate', designed by William Belton Perkin in 1883 is probably the 8 bay element of this building. The property divisions are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1891 and Nos 1-11 were the 'Borough Arms Cocoa House'.
(Map of Leeds: 1891-; Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1881-; Slater's Directory of Leeds: 1890-1891; Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: 1978-: 383).
Listing NGR: SE3046433466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466110
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 383
Slaters Directory of Leeds, (1890-1891)
Kellys Directory in Leeds, (1881)
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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