The Old Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. House, offices. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Bank
- WRENN ID
- far-brick-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- The Old Bank, 1, Albert Road, Saltaire, Shipley, BD18 4NR
- OS grid reference
- SE 136 377
- Coordinates
- 53.83565, -1.79393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bank is a detached executive's house, now used as offices, completed by 1868. It was designed by Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a Welsh slate roof and features two storeys and an attic. The symmetrical three-bay facade includes a central round-arched porch with pilaster jambs. Above the porch is a two-light Venetian Gothic window with a central engaged colonnette, a blind circle in the tympanum, alternately coloured voussoirs, and a slightly pointed hoodmould. A gabled dormer with a round-arched light breaks through the eaves, and there are single-light sash windows in the side bays. A sill band runs along the first floor, and shaped stone brackets support the gutter. Stone stacks with cornices are present on the roof.
The right elevation, facing Saltaire Road, features a gable on the left with a canted bay on the ground floor and a Venetian Gothic window on the first floor, similar to the front. There is a two-light attic window in the gable. The right part of the elevation is set back, and in the angle, there is a later projecting single-storey flat-roofed stone porch. The building is included for its group value and is part of the Saltaire model village.
Local climate
The Old Bank 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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