Green Lane School Main School with Attached Water Tower and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1990. School.
Green Lane School Main School with Attached Water Tower and Railings
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-eave-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1990
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- SE 154 340
- Coordinates
- 53.80228, -1.76654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Green Lane School is a main school block with an attached water tower and railings, built in 1902. The structure is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. It has chamfered eaves, plinth and cill bands, and quoins.
The north front displays a single-storey triple-gabled facade, featuring two central three-light cross mullion windows flanked by three two-light similar windows. There is a chamfered lintel band and two additional bands in the gables, each adorned with a central quatrefoil. The facade is inscribed with 'BOARD SCHOOL 1902'.
On the west front, there is a projecting entrance porch to the north, topped with a tall pyramidal roof. It includes a double door with a two-light mullion overlight, and to the left, a two-light cross mullion window. A low wall with spearhead railings connects to the massive square water tower, which has a deep chamfered band and two tall round-headed lancets on each face, topped by a projecting cornice and parapet.
To the south, there is a single-storey wing with three two-light cross mullion windows, followed by a two-storey range accessed by a ramp. This range has a small projecting porch to the right with a pointed entrance arch, three two-light mullion windows to the left, and four smaller similar windows above. Beyond this is a two-storey block at basement level, featuring four three-light cross mullion windows and four smaller similar windows above.
The south front is two-storey with a slightly projecting gabled cross wing to the right and a four-bay range to the left, which includes four three-light cross mullion windows and a small porch, with four smaller similar windows above. The east front has a two-storey, four-bay projecting corner wing with an attached tall square chimney stack, while the remaining east facade mirrors the west facade. Attached to the north is a low wall with spearhead railings and five sets of gabled gatepiers along the Green Lane frontage.
Local climate
Green Lane School Main School with Attached Water Tower and Railings 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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