Description

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SE 1435
22/487

Heaton BD9
EMM LANE
Former Yorkshire United Independent College

(Formerly listed as Management Training Centre, University of Bradford)

II
Built 1874-1877 for the Congregationalist Airedale College which became the Yorkshire United Independent College in 1888, and from 1963 until 2019, part of Bradford University.

These college buildings, approached by a drive and carriage sweep from Emm Lane, were designed by Lockwood and Mawson. C13 geometrical tracery Gothic sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Slightly asymmetrical multi-gabled composition with chapel wing to east and central projecting gabled bay with flanking pinnacled turrets, tripartite arcaded porch and large shafted oriel window above the main windows, at first floor level on the wings, rise into the gables. Master's residence to north end with two storey oriel bay front and set back tower with steep pavilion roof, iron cresting. Steep slate roofs throughout, grouped octagonal shaft chimneys, pointed lead capped ventilators, crocketed finials to gables.

Listing NGR: SE1481135591

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399582

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)