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Halifax Building Society

A Grade II Listed Building in City, Bradford

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7946 / 53°47'40"N

Longitude: -1.7529 / 1°45'10"W

OS Eastings: 416374

OS Northings: 433169

OS Grid: SE163331

Mapcode National: GBR JKK.49

Mapcode Global: WHC99.1WKC

Plus Code: 9C5WQ6VW+RR

Entry Name: Halifax Building Society

Listing Date: 9 August 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1133301

English Heritage Legacy ID: 336102

ID on this website: 101133301

Location: Eastbrook, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1

County: Bradford

Electoral Ward/Division: City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bradford

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Cathedral Church of St Peter Bradford

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


1.
5111 BANK STREET BD1
(east side)

No 28
SE 1633 SW 36/244 (Halifax Building Society)

II GV


2.
Includes No 6 Piece Hall Yard. Probably by Andrews and Pepper. Circa 1870-80 office
premises. Four-storeys ashlar gritstone with early Italian Renaissance details.
Pilasters with foliate caps flank the ground floor and first or mezzanine floor with
deep entablature across. Weathered sill courses. Frieze, drip mould and projecting
eaves course with flanking paired console brackets. Dropped drip moulds on foliate
stops to the 2 modernised ground floor windows flanking 3-centred arched doorway with
carved spandrels. The first or mezzanine floor has windows of paired arched lights
with dividing pilasters, foliate carved impost strings. The main emphasis is on the
second floor which has 3 large archivolt arched window openings screened by slender
2 bay arcades with foliate capped dividing colonettes and circles linked above in the
open tympani; undercut foliate in post string. Raised, 2 light, arcaded third floor
windows with dividing pilasters. Bed mould to frieze running below moulded eaves
cornice which is flanked by paired carved console brackets.


Listing NGR: SE1637433169

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