Halifax Building Society
6, PIECE HALL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133301
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Halifax Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- 6, PIECE HALL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133301
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Halifax Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, PIECE HALL YARD
- Statutory Address 2:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, 28, BANK STREET
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:
- 6, PIECE HALL YARD
- Statutory Address:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, 28, BANK STREET
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 16374 33169
Details
1. 5111 BANK STREET BD1 (east side)
No 28 SE 1633 SW 36/244 (Halifax Building Society)
II GV
2. Includes No 6 Piece Hall Yard. Probably by Andrews and Pepper. Circa 1870-80 office premises. Four-storeys ashlar gritstone with early Italian Renaissance details. Pilasters with foliate caps flank the ground floor and first or mezzanine floor with deep entablature across. Weathered sill courses. Frieze, drip mould and projecting eaves course with flanking paired console brackets. Dropped drip moulds on foliate stops to the 2 modernised ground floor windows flanking 3-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels. The first or mezzanine floor has windows of paired arched lights with dividing pilasters, foliate carved impost strings. The main emphasis is on the second floor which has 3 large archivolt arched window openings screened by slender 2 bay arcades with foliate capped dividing colonettes and circles linked above in the open tympani; undercut foliate in post string. Raised, 2 light, arcaded third floor windows with dividing pilasters. Bed mould to frieze running below moulded eaves cornice which is flanked by paired carved console brackets.
Listing NGR: SE1637433169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336102
- 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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