The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right
The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right, Thornton Road BD13
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133698
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right
- Statutory Address:
- The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right, Thornton Road BD13
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133698
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right, Thornton Road BD13
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:
- The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right, Thornton Road BD13
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 09595 32748
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 March 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
SE 0932
38/1093
Thornton BD13
THORNTON ROAD
The Great Northern Public House and adjoining coach house to right
II
Built as a railway hotel circa 1876-78. A surprisingly richly detailed Italianate-Renaissance design for a conventional three bay two storey elevation of this kind. Sandstone "brick" with finely masoned ashlar dressings. Plinth, rusticated quoins, frieze and moulded eaves cornice. Gable end slate roof with saddlestones and flanking chimneys with moulded cornices. The first floor windows have moulded architrave surrounds and cambered heads with archivolt arches. The central window architrave is eared with a faceted keystone to the arch. The ground floor windows have coupled arched lights, flanking pilasters and dividing colonettes with foliate caps, archivolt arches with richly carved garland console keystone. Consoles to moulded sills on both floors. The central doorway has inner pilasters supporting archivolt arch with enriched keystone as on windows, and flanking pilasters with Composite capitals containing male and female heads. The entablature above has a dentil cornice. Extending to the right of the hotel proper is a two-storey coach house with bracketed eaves cornice to slate roof. Four archivolt arched first floor windows with linking impost string.
Listing NGR: SE0959532748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337202
- 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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