Clifton House

Clifton House, 2, Clifton Villas

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314345
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: Clifton House
Statutory Address:: Clifton House, 2, Clifton Villas

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Date:: 2003-03-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314345
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: Clifton House
Statutory Address 1:: Clifton House, 2, Clifton Villas

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:: Clifton House, 2, Clifton Villas

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 15691 34408

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SE 1534 SE 32/402

CLIFTON VILLAS BD8 (south side) No 2 (Clifton House)

GV II A more substantial villa than the others, circa 1855-60. Two-storeys, ashlar sandstone with chamfered quoins to breaks in elevation flanking centre Plinth, sill band, modillion brackets on bed mould to moulded eaves cornice; hipped slate roof; tall corniced chimneys. Three windows on first floor in architrave surrounds containing plain narrow aprons. Pilastered canted bay window on ground floor. The centre has porch screen of two pairs of Doric columns, entablature with consoles, above each column, rising to cornice; above is a linked circle pattern balustrade with anthemion capped dies. Five window east return front has later link to detached billiard room with tripartite window, the divides capped by consoles to cornice, grooved quoin pilasters rising to bracketed eaves cornice. The west front is also of five windows with bracketed ashlar balconette bases to first floor and on ground floor the architrave surrounds carried down to include riser panels. Part of a cul-de-sac of villas in well wooded gardens.

Listing NGR: SE1569134408

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Legacy System number:: 336308
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.