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Latitude: 53.8081 / 53°48'29"N
Longitude: -1.771 / 1°46'15"W
OS Eastings: 415176
OS Northings: 434674
OS Grid: SE151346
Mapcode National: GBR JFD.8G
Mapcode Global: WHC98.RJVZ
Plus Code: 9C5WR65H+7H
Entry Name: Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital
Listing Date: 9 August 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1133619
English Heritage Legacy ID: 337299
ID on this website: 101133619
Location: Manningham, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD8
County: Bradford
Electoral Ward/Division: Manningham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bradford
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Manningham St Paul and St Jude
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Hospital building
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5111 WELBURY DRIVE
Heaton BD8
Main block fronting
road to Bradford
Children's Hospital
SE 1534 NW 28/1175
II
2.
Purpose built children's hospital of 1883. A symmetrical elevation of domestic
character. Crisply modelled and subtly balanced Jacobean-William and Mary
detailing. Two-storeys, basement and 2 tier attic. Sandstone "brick" with
ashlar dressings, fine quality masonry. Steep pitched slate roof. Banded
quoin pilasters and string courses. The centre of the front with tall narrow
William and Mary windows flanked by shallow gabled breaks. These have mullioned
canted bay windows with deep parapets on ground floor and at attic level open,
scrolled, carved pediment windows with scroll decorated aprons. Two large
hipped roof dormers to first tier of attic. The second tier has 5 tall, narrow
pedimented dormers, the centre flanked by tall corniced ashlar chimney stacks.
Recessed arched porch to centre of front with flanking pilaster strips rising
to strapwork carved date panel. To the north is a short circa 1900 wing with
an ogee domed stair tower linking with a large 2-storey circular ward and
operating theatre block of the same date. Tall narrow windows on sill courses,
small broken scrolled pediments set on string courses above first floor window
heads. A tall octagonal chimney rises from the centre-of the block. Delicate
cast iron balustrade to parapet.
Listing NGR: SE1517634674
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