RAND'S ALMSHOUSES

RAND'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-8, WHETLEY GROVE BD8

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133630
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: RAND'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: RAND'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-8, WHETLEY GROVE BD8

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133630
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: RAND'S ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: RAND'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-8, WHETLEY GROVE BD8

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RAND'S ALMSHOUSES, 1-8, WHETLEY GROVE 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 14513 34075

Details

1. 5111 WHETLEY GROVE BD8 Nos 1 to 8 (consec) (Rand's Almshouses), Whetley SE 1434 SE 30/1182

II

2. 1876, single-storey range of almshouses with 2-storey wings. Gothic and Jacobean detailing. Sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Ground floor of wings have splayed corners with shield panels, moulded corbelling to first floors with coped finialed gables. Lobed pointed twin light ground floor windows. Blind pointed arches on carved stops over first floor windows. Mullioned windows to single-storey range. Coupled porches to centre in applied pointed arch. Stepped, finialed gable above containing inscription and date.

Listing NGR: SE1451334075

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 337324
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.