The Talbot Hotel

THE TALBOT HOTEL, BANK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184587
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:
The Talbot Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE TALBOT HOTEL, BANK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184587
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:
The Talbot Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE TALBOT HOTEL, BANK STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE TALBOT HOTEL, BANK STREET

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 16364 33187

Details

1. 5111 BANK STREET BD1 (east side)

The Talbot Hotel SE 1633 SW 36/245

II GV

2. Large corner block with Kirkgate and Piece Hall Yard. Built 1878, architects: Andrews and Pepper. Italianate details, elaborated on top floor. Ashlar faced; 4 tall storeys with rounded corners to Kirkgate and Piece Hall Yard. Six windows to main fronts and one to each curved corner. Cornice over ground floor shop fronts as sill course to first floor windows. The latter are round headed with panelled flanking strips and carved console brackets to broken entablatures, thin cornices projecting from second floor sill course. The second floor has segmental arched windows, similar carved console brackets, broken entablatures, and prominent solid pediments decorated with incised ornament. The console brackets spring from a moulded string course which in turn supports paired pilasters, cut into by pediments, rising up to projecting bracketed eaves cornice. Incised strings carried across pilasters at second floor pediment level and third floor sill level. These pilasters flank and articulate the third floor windows as a pilastrade. The third floor windows are divided into 2 lights with the transom over having central rosette. Main frieze with roundels over pilaster caps and projecting moulded eaves cornice. The corners have scroll supported paired, corniced, chimneys linked by sections of balustrade. Modern shop fronts under ground floor entablature but retaining original hotel entrances on both fronts, consisting of banded panelled pilaster doorways with large console brackets to cornice hoods supporting pilaster casts of a Talbot Hound. The return front to Piece Hall Yard has giant pilastrade through second and third floors. Important corner site.

Listing NGR: SE1636433187

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Legacy System number:
336103
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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