26, Kirkgate is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

26, Kirkgate

WRENN ID
veiled-screen-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Commercial
Address
26, Kirkgate, BD1 1QL
OS grid reference
SE 164 332
Coordinates
53.79514, -1.75243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 26 Kirkgate is a building dating from around 1870, featuring a tall and narrow elevation with lively Italianate details. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and stands four storeys high. The building has rusticated and panelled quoin pilasters topped with foliate caps. There are string courses and sill bands, a deep frieze, and large console brackets supporting the projecting eaves cornice, which includes a corner chimney stack that is banded and corniced. The ground floor has a shop front, while the upper floors are marked by centred tripartite windows. The first and second floors have columns with foliate caps that divide and flank the window lights. A carved scroll bracket supports a baluster balconette in front of the second-floor window, which features a segmental pediment surrounded by rinceaux and forming a female head. The plain west front retains its cornice and string courses.

Local climate

26, Kirkgate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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