Devere House
1, AKED STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1133650
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Devere House
- Statutory Address:
- 1, AKED STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1133650
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Devere House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, AKED STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- DEVERE HOUSE, 62, VICAR LANE 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:
- 1, AKED STREET
- Statutory Address:
- DEVERE HOUSE, 62, VICAR LANE 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:
- SE1677833098
Details
1.
5111 VICAR LANE BD1
(south-east side)
No 62
(Devere House)
SE 1633 SE 37/1150
II* GV
2.
Includes No 1 Aked Street. Built in 1871 as an American and Chinese Export
Warehouse. Architects Lockwood and Mawson and, with No 63 opposite, their
major incursion into the precinct which is otherwise dominated by Eli Milnes.
No 62 is a grand commercial palazzo with richly modelled yet carefully
proportioned elevations, forming a corner block with Aked Street. Tall dressed
sandstone "brick" elevations with ashlar dressings of 5 graded storeys. Seven bays
to Vicar Lane, one to splayed corner and 2 to Aked Street with No 1 extending the
block in plainer style. The ground floor is arcaded. The piers have battered
moulded bases treated as plinth with vermiculated courses, Greek key bands and
weathered capping string. Similar string at impost level. Vermiculated console
keystones. Blind basement windows with console keys supporting window sills
above. Console bracket cornice over ground floor serving as sill course to
first floor which is treated as piano nobile. The close set windows have blind
baluster panels below sills and are flanked by panelled foliate capped pilasters
supporting archivolt arches, carved spandrels and modillioned pediments over.
Dentilled sill course to second floor with arcaded windows linked by acanthus
leaf impost string, carved tympani, archivolt arches. Similar details to
third floor with incised roundels to spandrels. The fourth floor windows have
segmental arched eared architrave surrounds. Bed mould to carved console
brackets supporting projecting eaves cornice. Office entrance on corner,
elaborately decorated with flanking panels carved with vine leaves and surmounted
by massive consoles supporting large segmental pediment with carved scrollwork.
This surround contains the door proper, flanked by Corinthian columns, large
vermiculated voussoirs to blind tympanum containing a boldly carved eagle;
festoons are carried across from the consoles of the surround. The waggonway
is contained in the wider end bay of the ground floor arcade. The blind basement
windows are screened by fine wrought iron grilles of wheel and scroll pattern.
Inside, behind corner entrance is the stairwell, octagonal in plan with moulded
soffits to treads, cast iron columnar banisters and swept and ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SE1677833098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337279
- 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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