Thorpe Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Department store. 2 related planning applications.
Thorpe Buildings
- WRENN ID
- white-clay-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Department store
- Address
- Thorpe Buildings, 2 and 4, Tyrrel Street Bd1
- OS grid reference
- SE 163 330
- Coordinates
- 53.79388, -1.75359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorpe Buildings, located at 2 and 4 Tyrrel Street in Bradford, was constructed between 1871 and 1876 by architects Hope and Jardine. This building occupies a triangular site at the junction of Hustlergate and Ivygate and was one of the early department stores, originally housing George Thorpe and Co.
The structure is four stories high and features Italianate detailing in ashlar stone. It has a console bracket cornice and presents two or three window bays on each facade, with three window groups separated by engaged Composite columns on each floor. The ground floor has been altered and includes banking premises at the west corner, which is adorned with Roman Ionic columns and wreath-capped pilasters. The bank corner is splayed, showcasing a tripartite columned bow window on the first floor.
Doubled columns flank the tripartite windows on the first floor, and above the corner, there is an aedicula dormer with a segmental pediment, cresting, and flanking scrolls. Each front features columnar parapeted curved corniced dormers that alternate with tall, panelled corniced chimneys.
Local climate
Thorpe Buildings 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 — 2 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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