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Sharp's Card Factory

A Grade II Listed Building in Heaton, Bradford

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Latitude: 53.8208 / 53°49'15"N

Longitude: -1.8075 / 1°48'27"W

OS Eastings: 412768

OS Northings: 436079

OS Grid: SE127360

Mapcode National: GBR J57.HX

Mapcode Global: WHC98.67J6

Plus Code: 9C5WR5CR+8X

Entry Name: Sharp's Card Factory

Listing Date: 20 August 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1376147

English Heritage Legacy ID: 470139

ID on this website: 101376147

Location: Nab Wood, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD9

County: Bradford

Electoral Ward/Division: Heaton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bradford

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Heaton St Martin

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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SE 13 NW
1/4/10032

BRADFORD
BINGLEY ROAD (West side)
Sharp's Card Factory

II

Alternatively known as: Sharp's Card Factory, THORN LANE
Printing works and offices. 1936. By Benjamin Chippindale and Richard J Edmondson of Bradford. Steel framed, clad in coursed local sandstone, concrete and cast iron with columns of art stone; felted flat roof Steel window frames, replaced in aluminium to rear. Classical style. Four storeys with basement boiler house at north end, three bays of 11, 9, 11 windows; the end bays and the central nine bays break forward, with fluted Ionic columns on stepped plinth rising through three storeys to support the entablature and top floor. Central entrance has four-leaf oak doors carved with linen-fold mouldings, in surround with flat lintel carved with recessed panels flanking date plaque: '1937'; cast iron grille above. The rectangular architrave has classical bead and reel mouldings. The square windows have steel frames, margin lights and central opening light; they are separated horizontally by probably cast iron panels with roundels and herringbone patterns in relief The windows are divided vertically by local sandstone pilasters. The top storey is set back slightly, above an ashlar band with roundels; the windows are smaller and paired in the outer bays. A deep fluted moulding forms a parapet around the top of the building.

Rear (west): paired wide loading doors to left and right, one with original door and overlight; fenestration as front, with sandstone pilasters, but with drain pipes from flat roof and window frames replaced c1992. End toilet and staircase bays project, with small windows and continuous glazed panels lighting the stair wells

Left return (south): three bays of 1,5,1 windows, with three shallow steps rising to a wide central entrance in a plain ashlar surround, now a window. The flanking windows are narrowed and a second four-leaf door, in the same style as the front entrance but with a glazed overlight, is far left of the central bay.

Right return (north): symmetrical, with entrance door as main front far right of central bay and boiler house vents below ground floor windows.

Listing NGR: SE1276836079

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