Bradford College, Old Building
BRADFORD COLLEGE, OLD BUILDING, GREAT HORTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133133
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bradford College, Old Building
- Statutory Address:
- BRADFORD COLLEGE, OLD BUILDING, GREAT HORTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133133
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bradford College, Old Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRADFORD COLLEGE, OLD BUILDING, GREAT HORTON ROAD
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:
- BRADFORD COLLEGE, OLD BUILDING, GREAT HORTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 15781 32818
Details
1. 5111 GREAT HORTON ROAD BD7 (north-west side)
Bradford College, Old Building SE 1532 45/532
II
2. Completed in 1882 to the design of T C Hope of Hope and Jardine. Nearly symmetrical facade of fine ashlar with Italian Renaissance and Baroque details. Two tall storeys on hillside site. Left hand part articulated by giant Corinthian pilasters and the right hand by engaged columns of the same order, on pedestals breaking forward from plinth. Modillion bracket cornice broken forward in line with orders and dies in parapet. Round arched colonetted paired light windows to first floor, those to left hand, as with pilasters, slightly different with carved tympanum. The entrance bay is emphasised by a break with doubled giant orders and the entablature surmounted by segmental pediment. Above this rises the tower with a square, colonetted window, base-broached, with urns on corners, to a polygonal, columned lantern crowned by a stone dome and cupola, On the east side a 3 bay return of similar design breaks forward. The tower is a prominent feature of the Bradford skyline.
Listing NGR: SE1578132818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336467
- 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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