Westcliffe Road Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Methodist chapel, manse. 2 related planning applications.

Westcliffe Road Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
gilded-belfry-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 1982
Type
Methodist chapel, manse
Address
Westcliffe Road Methodist Chapel, Shipley, BD18 3EE
OS grid reference
SE 145 372
Coordinates
53.83105, -1.78049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Westcliffe Road Methodist Chapel, built in 1875, is now used as school rooms and was formerly a manse. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and has a Welsh slate roof. It is two storeys high, with a three-storey former manse at the rear. The front features a three-bay pediment gable, with a central round-arched doorway that has a key, flanked by square-headed windows on either side. These windows have raised sills and very shallow block pediments supported by small, shaped brackets. The first floor has round-arched windows, paired in the center, all with archivolts, keys, and a sill band. The recent casements include glazing bars. A medallion in the tympanum reads "WESTCLIFFE ROAD CHAPEL 1875" in raised letters. The left and right side elevations each have six bays, with five bays of square-headed ground-floor windows and round-arched first-floor windows, while the sixth bay contains the manse, topped with a pediment. The door to the manse is located on the left elevation, also featuring recent casements with glazing bars. The interior was completely refurbished around 1979.

Local climate

Westcliffe Road Methodist Chapel 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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