Number 79 and Attached Arcade
NUMBER 79 AND ATTACHED ARCADE, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133563
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Number 79 and Attached Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 79 AND ATTACHED ARCADE, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133563
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Number 79 and Attached Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 79 AND ATTACHED ARCADE, VICTORIA 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:
- NUMBER 79 AND ATTACHED ARCADE, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 13942 37937
Details
SE 1337 NE SHIPLEY VICTORIA ROAD (east side) Saltaire
9/138 No 79 and 22/11/66 attached arcade
GV II
Probably Post Office, now shop premises and attached arcade. Completed by 1868. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Two storeys. On a corner site with one bay on Victoria Road, two bays on Caroline Street and a single corner bays divided by rusticated quoins. Doorway in corner bay flanked by slender lights separated by pilasters. Large shop windows to the two elevations. Archivolted round-arched windows to 1st floor and ground floor left. Deep entablature between floors. Deep, bracketed moulded eaves cornice and parapet. Hipped roof. Two tall stacks with cornices.
A 2-bay arcade is attached to the left and joins the building to No 41 Caroline Street (q.v.) and forms entrance to rear access road.
Part of Saltaire model village.
Listing NGR: SE1394237937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reynolds, J, The Great Paternalist, (1983)
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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