53 AND 55, LEEDS ROAD BD1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366584
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: 53 AND 55, LEEDS ROAD BD1
Statutory Address:: 53 AND 55, LEEDS ROAD BD1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366584
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: 53 AND 55, LEEDS ROAD BD1
Statutory Address 1:: 53 AND 55, LEEDS ROAD BD1

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:: 53 AND 55, LEEDS ROAD 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 16771 33060

Details

1. 5111 LEEDS ROAD BD1

Nos 53 and 55 SE 1633 SE 37/708

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2. Warehouse/offices on corner site with Vicar Lane and part of the "Little Germany" mercantile precinct. Architect Eli Milnes, 1862. No 55 is a slightly later extension in similar style. Four tall storeys, ashlar sandstone on rusticated vermiculated basement storey. The corner bowed and slightly inset. Sill bands and bracket cornice over raised ground floor. Heavy console bracket cornice over third floor. Frieze and moulded eaves cornice. Section of pierced parapet between chimneys over corner. Awkwardly arched ground floor windows with linking impost string, cartouches set in spandrels to Leeds road front. First floor windows have pilaster strips and cornices on console brackets. Engaged Doric columned doorway to No 53 with deep full entablature.Similar pilastered doorway to No 55. Above the latter rises a 5 storey quoin pilastered tower linking the 2 facades, nearly flush with them, and serving to mark the slight change in angle of the building line. The first floor has a pilastered oriel bow window, paired round headed light to upper floor and top stage with clock faces over-arched by eaves cornice, the corner supported by paired consoles. The right hand elevation, No 55, had pedimented oeuil de boeuf dormers above third floor cornice. This rich Italianate design holds an important corner site.

Listing NGR: SE1677133060

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Legacy System number:: 336713
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.