Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Including Wall and Piers to Saltaire Road

SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL INCLUDING WALL AND PIERS TO SALTAIRE ROAD, VICTORIA ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200466
Date first listed:
07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Including Wall and Piers to Saltaire Road
Statutory Address:
SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL INCLUDING WALL AND PIERS TO SALTAIRE ROAD, VICTORIA ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200466
Date first listed:
07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Including Wall and Piers to Saltaire Road
Statutory Address 1:
SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL INCLUDING WALL AND PIERS TO SALTAIRE ROAD, VICTORIA ROAD

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL INCLUDING WALL AND PIERS TO SALTAIRE ROAD, VICTORIA ROAD

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

District:
Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Shipley
National Grid Reference:
SE 13912 37754

Details

SE 1338 SE SHIPLEY VICTORIA ROAD (east side) Saltaire

9/144 Sir Titus Salt's Hospital including wall and piers to Saltaire Road

GV II

Hospital, now old people's home. Dated 1868. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys. Italianate-style ordered but asymmetrical facade of 11 bays. Several bays break forward and are gabled. Windows are round-arched and single light, or paired with central colonnette and some have decorative friezes. Larger windows have cambered heads. All have pointed hoodmould. The doorway to left, with C20 door, has fanlight with glazed words ' SIR TITUS SALT's HOSPITAL /1868 ' and carved above ' OPENED SEPT /1868 '. To the right is an open porch with central colonnette infilled with C20 glazing, with inner glazing reading ' PRIVATE ENTRANCE ' and ' SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL '. Band between floors. Bracketed eaves. Modillioned gables, the tympanum of one being richly carved with foliage with central roundel. Tall stacks with modillioned cornices.

The left facade, on Saltaire Road, is symmetrical with the gabled centre bay breaking forward, its tympanum enriched with foliage and the Salt coat of arms. Central 3-light canted bay window to ground floor; central 2nd-floor triple group window with a panel below with raised letters ' SIR TITUS SALT's HOSPITAL '. Flanking windows are paired with round-arched lights and central colonnettes. Bracketed eaves and modillioned gable. The rear elevation is plainer, but the right end, nearest Saltaire Road is treated as the main facades.

Attached to the left facade is a dwarf wall with square ashlar piers with decorative pyramidal caps.

Part of Saltaire model village.

Listing NGR: SE1391237754

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
337539
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Reynolds, J, The Great Paternalist, (1983)

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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.

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