Pennine House
1A, CURRER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133621
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Pennine House
- Statutory Address:
- 1A, CURRER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133621
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Pennine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1A, CURRER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 41, 43 AND 45, WELL STREET BD1
- Statutory Address 3:
- PENNINE HOUSE, 39, WELL STREET BD1
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:
- 1A, CURRER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 41, 43 AND 45, WELL STREET BD1
- Statutory Address:
- PENNINE HOUSE, 39, WELL STREET BD1
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 16700 33161
Details
1. 5111 WELL STREET BD1
No 39 (Pennine House) and Nos 41, 43 and 45 SE 1633 SE 37/1161
II GV
2. Includes No lA Currer Street. 1864 circa 1868, two large blocks of wool warehouses between Church Bank and Currer Street. Eli Milnes, architect. Sandstone "brick" with fine quality ashlar dressings. Palazzo details, rather more ornate with incised ornament on Nos 39 to 43. Five tall storeys and semi-basement. Canted corner with Church Bank. Battered, deeply rusticated piers to basement with platband over. Bracketed cornices to ground and second floors, sill courses, frieze bed mould with consoles rising to modillion brackets of deep eaves cornice. Pilastered archivolt arched ground floor windows. First floor windows have linked cambered cornices. On second floor the windows have panelled lunette heads. Segmental arches to upper floors. The canted corner has incised pilasters flanking each floor. Pedimented gable over attic raised above cornice and containing vertical oeuil de boeuf. Roman Ionic granite columned doorway with 2 light rectangular bay window surmounted by segmental pediment, projecting above. Paired windows to upper floors with addition of segmental pediment on third floor. Similar detailing to Church Bank elevation climbing hill and angled back with curve of road. Large warehouse portal is adjacent to that of No 45. The staircase lies behind the canted corner and rises in an octagonal well with ornate cast iron banisters. Elaborately moulded soffit to steps and boldly modelled plaster panels on walls. The main double doors are not hung but slide in grooves. No 45 has very similar elevations but is plainer, without incised ornament. Monumental doorway with banded pilasters and massive consoles, hung with garlands, to entablature with balcony over. The return to Currer Street has a 3 bay centre break with a pedimented gable bracketed in the same manner as the eaves cornice.
Listing NGR: SE1670033161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337303
- 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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