70 and 72 Park Lane, Bradford
70 AND 72, PARK LANE, BD5
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132951
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 70 and 72 Park Lane, Bradford
- Statutory Address:
- 70 AND 72, PARK LANE, BD5
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132951
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-May-2011
- List Entry Name:
- 70 and 72 Park Lane, Bradford
- Statutory Address 1:
- 70 AND 72, PARK LANE, BD5
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:
- 70 AND 72, PARK LANE, BD5
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Trident
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1578431737
Summary
70 and 72 Park Lane are a pair of workers' cottages dating from c.1830, part of a terrace.
Reasons for Designation
Nos 70 and 72 Park Lane, Bradford, are designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architecture: they are part of a terrace of cottages using local materials in a style adapted to provide accommodation for workers in the rapidly growing town
* Date: they date to c.1830, at the beginning of the building boom which transformed Bradford
* Survival: the pair retains original features, including stone slate roofs and an outside privy, and No 70 also has its original footprint as well as a staircase
History
A row of buildings on the site of Nos 70 and 72 Park Lane is shown on the 1852 OS 1:10560 map. The houses are said to date from the 1830s. This area of Bradford, to the south-west of the city centre was expanding throughout the C19 and was characterised by terraces of small workers' houses, including back-to-back houses of which many survive. The footprint of No 70 appears unchanged, but No 72 has a large extension to the rear.
The whole terrace, from No 60 to No 72, was designated in 1977 in 4 separate list entries which also include 1-11 Holme Top Lane.
Details
The houses are constructed of sandstone 'bricks' and have stone-slate roofs, that of No 70 having been recently restored after it had been replaced with concrete tiles. The terrace is set back from the street behind a small front yard. Each house has a square-jambed doorway with a modern plastic door to the right, and a two-light window with mullion to the left. On the first floor of each is a two light window and a small single light over the doorway. No 70 has uPVC top opening window frames while No 72 has similar windows but timber framed. No 70 has a stone-built 'nettie' (toilet building) attached to the front wall of the yard; No 72's has been removed. To the rear No 70 has two uPVC framed windows to each floor, the right-hand ground-floor window being adapted to form an entrance. No 72 has three varied timber-framed first-floor windows, and a C20 extension occupying the full width of the ground floor.
Internally No 70 has a small entrance vestibule from which the stairs rise, and a door to the left leading into the main room. A small kitchen is situated in the far right corner with a door giving access to the cellar. The fireplace is blocked and the rear window has been extended to form an exit to the back yard. Upstairs, thin partition walls have been inserted to form two bedrooms and a bathroom. The interior of No 72 was not inspected.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336970
- 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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