ARCADE ROYALE POST OFFICE CHAMBERS AND ARCADE ROYALE WEST ENTRANCE

ARCADE ROYALE, 24 AND 26, KING EDWARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380068
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:: ARCADE ROYALE POST OFFICE CHAMBERS AND ARCADE ROYALE WEST ENTRANCE
Statutory Address:: ARCADE ROYALE, 24 AND 26, KING EDWARD STREET

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Date:: 2007-08-10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380068
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:: ARCADE ROYALE POST OFFICE CHAMBERS AND ARCADE ROYALE WEST ENTRANCE
Statutory Address 1:: ARCADE ROYALE, 24 AND 26, KING EDWARD STREET
Statutory Address 2:: POST OFFICE CHAMBERS AND ARCADE ROYALE WEST ENTRANCE, 28, 30 AND 32, COMMERCIAL STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ARCADE ROYALE, 24 AND 26, KING EDWARD STREET
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE CHAMBERS AND ARCADE ROYALE WEST ENTRANCE, 28, 30 AND 32, COMMERCIAL STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 09261 25064

Details

SE 0925 SW HALIFAX COMMERCIAL STREET (East side) 679/14/10149 Nos.28, 30 and 32, Post Office Chambers and Arcade 07.02.2000 Royale West Entrance

GV II

Includes: Arcade Royale, Nos.24 and 26 KING EDWARD STREET Shops and offices incorporating west entrance of Arcade Royale. c1900 with arcade entrance inserted c1912, probably by Clement Williams. Ashlar with roof of grey-green slates and lead-covered angle turret. Free Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1:2:2:2:1 x 2:1:2:1 bays plus canted corner. Commercial Street front has renewed plate glass shop windows flanking central arcade entrance; full-width entablature, with curved projections flanking windows, over recessed panelled door to Post Office Chambers at left and arched entrance at centre; fascia has glass panel over painted panel with letters ARCADE ROYALE in similar style to those of the Arcade building entrance in King Edward Street (q.v.). Upper floors have full-height pilasters defining bays, with rustication to those flanking left office entrance bay and two bays over arcade entrance. Most windows mullion and transom, the first bay with rounded oriel on second floor under arch springing from pilasters and supporting ramped roof balustrade of small tower. Central bays have canted bay windows on first floor and rising behind their ramped parapets are recessed, segmental headed second floor windows with multiple keys, the central keys rising to top cornice. Flanking intermediate bays are recessed with linking second floor entablature, and richly carved panels over top windows. Eaves dentils between pilasters which support the cornice on long curved brackes rising from the pilasters. At centre an attic storey has short Tuscan columns framing 3 narrow lights, flanked by oeils de boeuf, all between rusticated pilasters with rich carving in the central segmental pediment. Right canted bay has corbelled octagonal buttresses flanking full height oriel above shops, and carved panel below ramped eaves parapet; octagonal roof turret with rusticated pilasters and round-headed windows.

Right return to King Edward Street has similar fenestration with 2 storey bowed, 3 light windows to central bay. Steeply pitched mansard roof, with high pyramidal towers over left and central bays, and high relief swags to high domed turret. Set back dormer windows between turrets have high pediments. All towers have tall spike and ball finials. Tall block chimney stacks with side pilasters rise from upper slope of roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Part of a very significant group of buildings in the centre of the town, in the vicinity of the Town Hall(qv), Borough Market(qv) and Lloyds Bank(qv). (Gee S: Old Halifax: Leeds: 1987-: 17).

Listing NGR: SE0926125064

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Gee, S, Old Halifax, (1987), 17

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.