Description

1.
5111 LILY CROFT
Heaton Road (off)
Manningham BD8

Bradford Tradesmens Homes (Nos 1 to
43 (consec) and Chapel)
(formerly listed under Heaton Road)
SE 1434 NE 27/722
SE 1434 SE 30/722 1.9.77

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A cul-de-sac off Heaton Road. 1867 and 1878 almshouses ranged around 4 sides of
a rectangular green. Three almshouses were subscribed to Sir Titus Salt, S C Lister,
Isaac Holden amongst the principal Bradford area mill owners and industrialists.
Foundation stone of north range and return wings laid by Sir T Salt in 1867. Single
storey and attic, sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Designed in a simplified
High Victorian Gothic by the Milnes and France partnership. Steeply pitched Welsh
slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. Large ashlar chimney stacks on ridge.
Overhanging eaves on wood brackets. One window front with hipped gables to half
dormers. Shaped stepped heads to windows. Chamfered pointed arch doorways with
fanlights. In the centre of the north range is a small chapel with a projecting
canted front and crowning clock turret. Shafted doorway with lunette and wing from
arch a 2 light colonetted window contained in gable. The 2 stone lamas flanking the
entrance come from Sir T Salt's home. The chapel windows have reset German stained
glass. The north range is linked to wing ranges by pointed arch gateways. The
south range of almshouses was added in 1878. Similar detail but with central and
end houses breaking forward with gabled fronts containing canted bay windows with
paired first floor windows surmounted by blind pointed lunettes with quatrefoils.
The central gable has a tiled inscription with the date 1878.

Listing NGR: SE1468434452

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425986

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)