Furness House, Forward House, Equity Chambers and Auburn House
EQUITY CHAMBERS AND AUBURN HOUSE, 40 AND 42, PICCADILLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270377
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Furness House, Forward House, Equity Chambers and Auburn House
- Statutory Address:
- EQUITY CHAMBERS AND AUBURN HOUSE, 40 AND 42, PICCADILLY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270377
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Furness House, Forward House, Equity Chambers and Auburn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EQUITY CHAMBERS AND AUBURN HOUSE, 40 AND 42, PICCADILLY
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORWARD HOUSE, 8, DUKE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- FURNESS HOUSE, 13,15 AND 17, MANOR ROW
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:
- EQUITY CHAMBERS AND AUBURN HOUSE, 40 AND 42, PICCADILLY
- Statutory Address:
- FORWARD HOUSE, 8, DUKE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FURNESS HOUSE, 13,15 AND 17, MANOR ROW
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 16259 33395
Details
SE 1633 SW
36/10012
MANOR ROW (West side),
Nos. 13, 15 & 17 Furness House
9/8/83
GV II
Includes No. 8 Forward House, DUKE STREET.
Includes: Nos 40 & 42 Equity Chambers & Auburn House. PICCADILLY.
(Formerly listed with 1-11 Manor Row and 4 Duke Street)
Wool warehouse and office chambers. c1890. Dressed sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 5 storeys plus attic. 26 windows to west, 10 windows to north, 11 windows to south and 7 windows to east, with single window at each of the 3 canted corners. Rusticated basement, ashlar ground floor, cill bands and dentillated eaves cornice. Various wall stacks. Segment headed windows to the ground floor and flat headed windows above. Piccadilly front has central bay with slightly projecting ashlar pilasters rising through all floors to a pedimented dormer. Central segment headed doorway with small flanking windows, above a tripartite window in a moulded ashlar surround to each floor, that to the dormer with a rounded head. The 3 canted comers each have an ashlar door surround, and above pilaster strips plus pilaster strips to the flanking side windows. All these windows have moulded ashlar hoods and impost bands. Each comer is topped with a pedimented dormer with a round headed window and flanking parapets. The east and south fronts also have large loading entrances with pedimented ashlar surrounds. A large scale and architecturally impressive group of late Victorian wool warehouses and offices.
Listing NGR: SE1625933395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459259
- 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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