Description

SE1039SE BINGLEY CLYDE STREET (south side)

9/57 That part of Park Road Tannery on the corner at junction with Park Road

GV II

Leatherworks. C1900. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, cast-iron and wood top storey with Welsh blue-slate roof. 5 storeys to Park Road, 4 storeys to Clyde Street following slope of hill. Entrance front on Clyde Street has 4 bays with corner rusticated pilasters. 1st bay has doorway with architrave and overlight and small arched window to right. 2nd bay has doorway with monolithic jambs, consoles, cornice and inner moulded surround with fan-light. 3rd and 4th bays have windows with segmental lintels and consoles. 1st floor has rectangular window with projecting sills. Set above the lintels is heavy cyma-moulded cornice with shaped brackets. This continues round the building and supports the top double storey which is set back slightly with 4 bays of louvred timber walling and 2 tiers of 8-pane swivel windows. Each bay is separated by cast-iron column which supports eaves gutter. Hipped roof with 2 louvred ventilators. Attached to rear is 4-storey water tower with plated iron tank on top. Left-hand return has 6 bays with large doorways set in 3rd and 5th bays with windows as 1st floor front. Right-hand return has 7 bays of similar windows to ground floor and 1st floor with windows basket-arched to basement. Lateral stack set between 2nd and 3rd bays.

Interior: Top floor, used as a leather drying room, has fish-bone king-post roof with cast-iron spandrels bolted onto the principal rafters and the cast-iron columns. On each floor cast-iron girders support wooden floor joists. Offices on entrance front.

Listing NGR: SE1089239371

External Links

• Wikidata Q26600719

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