GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL

GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL, THORNTON VIEW ROAD BD14

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133655
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL, THORNTON VIEW ROAD BD14

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133655
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL, THORNTON VIEW ROAD BD14

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:: GATE HOUSE BLOCK, HIGHGATE HOUSE, REAR BLOCK AND CHIMNEY STACK AT THORNTON VIEW HOSPITAL, THORNTON VIEW ROAD BD14

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Clayton
National Grid Reference:: SE 12482 31141

Details

1. 5111 THORNTON VIEW ROAD Clayton BD14

Gate house block, Highgate House, rear block and chimney stack at Thornton View Hospital SE 1231 49/1101

II

2. Circa 1852-55 built as the North Bierley Union workhouse. Contemporary with Lockwood and Mawson's Bradford Union and with similar massing and use of Italianate detail. The gate house range precedes the 2 parallel ranges, running north-south. All of sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with bracket corniced chimneys. The gate house range is of 2-storeys with slightly lower wings. Three bay centre with break containing archway. Cupola on the ridge. Plinth, impost strings, large bracket cornice over ground floor, panelled piers flanking archway and pilaster strips above flanking central first floor window. Frieze and moulded projecting eaves cornice. The archway has archivolt arch with spaced vermiculated voussoirs. Coupled, archivolt arched, outer first floor windows with columns dividing the lights. Panels above heads of ground floor windows. The wings have similar first floor windows and shallow breaks on ground floor containing tripartite, columned archivolt arched windows. Boardroom over archway with glazed dome in cupola, refurbished circa 1900 with oak fittings, ornate plaster mouldings. Highgate House, the main workhouse block, is a long 3-storey range with broad gabled centre flanked by 3-storey parapeted towers. Eight bay wings have 2-storey gabled end breaks. The towers have eared architrave windows to each face. The centrepiece has double pilastered doorway, archivolt arched fanlight and large consoles to heavy modillion bracket cornice. Three eared architrave first floor windows but on second floor full width range of 5 archivolt arched lights with columns. The wings have sill bands and impost strings linking archivolt arched windows. Two-storey 7 bay wing with similar details to south. The rear range is of 2-storeys 18 bays long. The penultimate bays and the 4 central ones break forward with pediment gables. Sill bands and impost strings. Archivolt arched ground floor windows, plain ashlar lintels on first floor. Deep bracketed moulded eaves cornice. Large splayed panelled reveal doorways with segmental arches. The impressive sandstone "brick" workhouse chimney stack of tapering octagonal type with cornice crown.

Listing NGR: SE1248231141

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Legacy System number:: 337205
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.