Behrens Warehouse
BEHRENS WAREHOUSE, 26, EAST PARADE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314395
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Behrens Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- BEHRENS WAREHOUSE, 26, EAST PARADE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2007-11-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/16978/02
- Rights:
- © Mr Nigel Wood. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314395
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Behrens Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEHRENS WAREHOUSE, 26, EAST PARADE
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:
- BEHRENS WAREHOUSE, 26, EAST PARADE
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 16954 33118
Details
1. 5111 EAST PARADE BD1 (east side)
No 26
SE 1633 SE 37/465 (Behrens Warehouse)
II* GV
2. One of the largest of the warehouse/office blocks in the precinct known as "Little Germany". Imposing corner site with Peckover Street. Designed for S L Behrens in 1873 by the Milnes and France partnership. Five tall storeys and semi-basement, ashlar sandstone finely dressed. A grand but functional design with restrained Italianate details. 14 window range to East Parade and 10 window return to Peckover Street. Deeply rusticated basement, the windows to Peckover Street having fine Greek key and wheel patterned cast iron grilles. Deep sill band to ground floor with the bays articulated by V grooved pilastrade. Deep frieze and projecting cornice above with blocking course as sill course to first floor windows. The latter one also pilastraded and have stilted segmental archivolt arches. Bracket cornice over first floor. Plain windows on sill bands to upper floors. Prominent eaves cornice supported by large console brackets. Tall banded, corniced chimneys of Venetian derivation. Massive portal with waggonway adjacent at end of East Parade elevations paired banded pilasters with capitals formed of 4 giant acanthus leaves flank the portal, entablature with bracket cornice and balustraded stone balcony above with flanking dies. The waggonway, of the same proportions as the portal, has the ground floor sill band and rustication returned into reveals; fine cast and wrought iron gates with baluster rails in Greek key and wheel framework, valance of similar pattern with date and name of owner. The gates, in the usual way, give access to the loading bay with hoist through full height of warehouse.
Listing NGR: SE1695433118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336384
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 03:52:32.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.