Description

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5111 GREAT HORTON ROAD BD7
(north-west side)

Bradford College, Old Building
SE 1532 45/532

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Completed in 1882 to the design of T C Hope of Hope and Jardine. Nearly symmetrical
facade of fine ashlar with Italian Renaissance and Baroque details. Two tall storeys
on hillside site. Left hand part articulated by giant Corinthian pilasters and the
right hand by engaged columns of the same order, on pedestals breaking forward from
plinth. Modillion bracket cornice broken forward in line with orders and dies in
parapet. Round arched colonetted paired light windows to first floor, those to left
hand, as with pilasters, slightly different with carved tympanum. The entrance bay
is emphasised by a break with doubled giant orders and the entablature surmounted
by segmental pediment. Above this rises the tower with a square, colonetted window,
base-broached, with urns on corners, to a polygonal, columned lantern crowned by a
stone dome and cupola, On the east side a 3 bay return of similar design breaks
forward. The tower is a prominent feature of the Bradford skyline.

Listing NGR: SE1578132818

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426072

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (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)