Yorkshire Bank
41, MANOR ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314499
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 41, MANOR ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314499
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 41, MANOR ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- YORKSHIRE BANK, 40, NORTH PARADE BD1
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:
- 41, MANOR ROW
- Statutory Address:
- YORKSHIRE BANK, 40, NORTH PARADE BD1
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 16128 33504
Details
1. 5111 NORTH PARADE BD1
No 40 SE 1633 35/905 (Yorkshire Bank) SE 1633 ST 36/905
II GV
2. Includes No 41 Manor Row. Prominent and acute corner site at apex of Manor Row and North Parade. Built as the Yorkshire Penny Bank 1895, L Ledingham architect. Sandstone ashlar, profusely decorated and richly modelled facades, an admixture of Franco-Flemish and Italian Renaissance details; notable quality of carving and stone masonry. Three storeys and attic, bowed corner of 3 bays and 4 bay side elevations. Deep stepped and moulded plinth, entablatures to each floor; very ornate frieze to main bracket cornice, with strapwork and festoon decoration. The tripartite corner composition has an open arcade with oval vestibule behind. The piers are oval in section with foliate caps and twisted fluting to necks. Colonettes applied to front of each pier and continued as pilasters dividing the profusely carved strapwork and rinceaux spandrels. Deeply moulded arches with spaced voussoirs and console keystones. First floor articulated by pilaster stops, the windows of 2 lights with corkscrew fluted shaft colonettes as mullions. The second floor is treated as open arcade similar to ground floor and providing a balcony. Above the balustraded parapet is an aediculed dormer with shell carving to tympanum, stepped broken pediment. Small flanking archways with elaborate scrolled crestings and supports. Behind the dormer rises a truncated octagonal slate spire supporting the clock turret which is also octagonal and battered, the faces articulated by projecting columns, festooned frieze and concave swept cornice, surmounted by shallow ogee lead dome. Short staff wing from finial to support weathervane. Flanking the corner and terminating the side elevations are canted bartizan turrets, corbelled out from ground floor entablature on oriel bases. Narrow pedimented windows on their first floor flanked by arches and on the top stage blind arcading; the turrets are crowned by low stone domes with ball finials. Four bay side elevations have 2 light windows, identical to those on first floor of corner but with plain mullions to second floor. Arcaded ground floor windows for banking hall, similar to porch in detail. Broken segmental pedimented dormers with flanking columns. The banking hall has a richly decorated plaster ceiling with rinceaux and strapwork. Marble faced dado and mahogany furnishings.
Listing NGR: SE1612833504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336945
- 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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