Main Blocks Forming Great Horton First School and Middle School, and Master's House to North. is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. School. 12 related planning applications.
Main Blocks Forming Great Horton First School and Middle School, and Master's House to North.
- WRENN ID
- worn-wall-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- Main Blocks Forming Great Horton First School and Middle School, and Master's House to North., Cross Lane, BD7 3JT
- OS grid reference
- SE 144 316
- Coordinates
- 53.78104, -1.78172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main blocks forming Great Horton First School and Middle School, along with the Master's House to the north, were built in 1886 and designed by architects Morley and Woodhouse. This complex is a notable example of the Bradford School Board competition design. It consists of two large single-storey blocks and a Master's House to the right. The buildings are constructed from sandstone "bricks" with ashlar dressings and exhibit elements of the Queen Anne revival style.
The fronts of the two blocks feature projecting wings with large mullioned transomed windows on either side of a recessed centre that contains two large Venetian windows, topped with pedimented gables and crowned by ball finials, supported by scrolled brackets. The main hall rises behind the centre, showcasing tall swept supports to a pedimented gable. The south-west block mirrors this design but has only one Venetian window at the centre. The adjacent Master's House is a compact two-storey structure made of sandstone "brick" with ashlar groove pilasters, also topped with ball finials, and features a hipped slate roof. The ground floor includes mullioned transomed windows set in rectangular bays.
Local climate
Main Blocks Forming Great Horton First School and Middle School, and Master's House to North. 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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