Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital
MAIN BLOCK FRONTING ROAD TO BRADFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, WELBURY DRIVE BD8
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133619
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BLOCK FRONTING ROAD TO BRADFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, WELBURY DRIVE BD8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133619
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BLOCK FRONTING ROAD TO BRADFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, WELBURY DRIVE BD8
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:
- MAIN BLOCK FRONTING ROAD TO BRADFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, WELBURY DRIVE BD8
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 15176 34674
Details
1. 5111 WELBURY DRIVE Heaton BD8
Main block fronting road to Bradford Children's Hospital SE 1534 NW 28/1175
II
2. Purpose built children's hospital of 1883. A symmetrical elevation of domestic character. Crisply modelled and subtly balanced Jacobean-William and Mary detailing. Two-storeys, basement and 2 tier attic. Sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings, fine quality masonry. Steep pitched slate roof. Banded quoin pilasters and string courses. The centre of the front with tall narrow William and Mary windows flanked by shallow gabled breaks. These have mullioned canted bay windows with deep parapets on ground floor and at attic level open, scrolled, carved pediment windows with scroll decorated aprons. Two large hipped roof dormers to first tier of attic. The second tier has 5 tall, narrow pedimented dormers, the centre flanked by tall corniced ashlar chimney stacks. Recessed arched porch to centre of front with flanking pilaster strips rising to strapwork carved date panel. To the north is a short circa 1900 wing with an ogee domed stair tower linking with a large 2-storey circular ward and operating theatre block of the same date. Tall narrow windows on sill courses, small broken scrolled pediments set on string courses above first floor window heads. A tall octagonal chimney rises from the centre-of the block. Delicate cast iron balustrade to parapet.
Listing NGR: SE1517634674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337299
- 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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