Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses
Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses, 171-189, New Cross Street, BD5
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132972
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses, 171-189, New Cross Street, BD5
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132972
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses, 171-189, New Cross Street, 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:
- Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses, 171-189, New Cross Street, 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:
- SE 16742 31191
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 June 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 13 SE
9/885
West Bowling
NEW CROSS STREET BD5
Nos 171 to 189 (odd) (Bowling Dyeworks Almshouses)
II
First built at the top of Springwell Street in 1857 by Mr and Mrs Edward Ripley, the family who founded one of the largest dyeworks in Europe, the almshouses were moved to their present site in 1881, four new ones being added at the same time. A symmetrical range of two storey almshouses in a restrained Jacobean style. Fine quality dressed sandstone "brick". The end houses break forward slightly, gabled with weathered saddlestones and kneelers. Intervening houses have single window fronts grouped in pairs, the first floor windows treated as gabled semi-dormers. Small corbel table to eaves. Weathered first floor sill course. Slate roofs, prominent, corniced, chimney stacks. Windows throughout are two light thin chamfered mullion casements. Drip moulds over first floor windows of end houses. Paired doorways, except for end houses, four-centred arches with drip moulds raised over oak leaf carved panels. Original date stones reset following re-erection.
Listing NGR: SE1674231191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336923
- 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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