| Description | Delauney House is a wool warehouse/office. It was constructed in two phases: in 1858 the north western building was constructed, and in 1878 a building to the southeast was added. The two buildings were amalgamated into a single building. The building is of two storeys with a semi basement. It is built of sandstone ‘brick’ with ashlar dressings. There is horizontal grooving to the basement and ground floor, sill bands, a bed mould to the frieze, and plain console brackets to the eaves cornice. It has a seven bay front. The basement windows are segmental arched with double keystones, and the ground floor windows are in splayed recessed surrounds, with keystones to their segmental arches. There is a doorway to the right with a recessed concave panelled surround carried over a fanlight. The sill band is returned over the door head. There is an archivolt outer arch with spaced voussoirs and a keystone decorated with the Staff of Mercury. The windows to the first floor are plain sashes. The building has a long return front to Scoresby Street with similar details, with the addition of two semi circular archways, one of which has been converted to a window (English Heritage, 1983).
A building recording and structural watching brief was carried out in 2006 prior to the building’s proposed conversion to domestic apartments. However, it is not known whether this work has yet been carried out. |