Town Hall (Including Public Library)
TOWN HALL (INCLUDING PUBLIC LIBRARY), STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314237
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall (Including Public Library)
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL (INCLUDING PUBLIC LIBRARY), STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314237
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall (Including Public Library)
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL (INCLUDING PUBLIC LIBRARY), STATION ROAD
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:
- TOWN HALL (INCLUDING PUBLIC LIBRARY), STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilkley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 11850 47569
Details
1. 5111 STATION ROAD Ilkley LS29 8HB ---------------- Town Hall (including Public Library) SE 1147 1/52 II 2. 1906-8 by W Bakewell. Of mixed style, chiefly Franco-Flemish classical. Tripartite central section recessed behind flanking blocks. 2 storeys. Ashlar with mainly mullioned windows. Steep, hipped slate roofs. Almost symmetrical. Mid part of central section: entrance recessed within Ionic columns and pediment, with transomed window either side; upper storey has 3-light oriel, with window either side of 4 lights divided by miniature piers, and cartouche in recessed panel over. Pyramidical roof. Central ridge clock-turret with louvred upper stage. 3-storey turret with lead ogee cap either side of mid part and beyond these single bays of thermal windows below and oriels of slight projection above. Right-hand projecting end block is slightly wider than left and has recessed central doorway. Both have 3-light pair of flanking windows below, and above have large 3-light window rising through a moulded cornice to form lunettes under moulded arches above, flanked by pair full-length carved figures and pair of roundels beyond these. Tripartite roofs with central pyramidical section crowned by tall finial.
Listing NGR: SE1185047569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 337704
- 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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