TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS

TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS, ROBERTS PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314250
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS
Statutory Address:: TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS, ROBERTS PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314250
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS
Statutory Address 1:: TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS, ROBERTS PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: TEA ROOM, BALUSTRADE AND FLANKING STEPS, ROBERTS PARK

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

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Baildon
National Grid Reference:: SE 13814 38337

Details

SE13NW BAILDON ROBERTS PARK 5El38383

6/32 Tea-room, balustrade and flanking steps

GV II

Tea-room, now used as store. 1870 by Lockwood and Mawson. Hammer- dressed stone, ashlar, stone flagged roof. Semicircular projection from raised terrace the roof being used as viewing balcony with steps to either side. 4 tall doorways with monolithic jambs with French windows, set between slight projections with rusticated quoins. Central feature with carved semicircular-arched recess with shell motif recessed for drinking fountain on pedestal. Entablature, cornice and low balustrade with 5 circles set over doorways. Date to centre. To either side 2 flights of steps with ½ landing and matching balustrade. Roof formed by platform, approached up 3 steps on which is set the statue of Sir Titus Salt (q.v.) a later insertion. Part of the park, opened in 1871, for the model village of Saltaire.

Contemporary illustration in J. Reynolds, Saltaire, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums City Trail No 2, (no date) p29.

Listing NGR: SE1381438337

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Legacy System number:: 337885
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Reynolds, J, 'Bradford Art Galleries and Museum City Trails' in Saltaire, ()
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 45 West Yorkshire,

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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.