Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Hospital. 1 related planning application.
Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital
- WRENN ID
- carved-tallow-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital, Welbury Drive Bd8, BD8 7LR
- OS grid reference
- SE 151 346
- Coordinates
- 53.80815, -1.77103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a purpose-built children's hospital constructed in 1883, featuring a symmetrical elevation with a domestic character. It showcases finely detailed Jacobean and William and Mary architectural styles. The structure is two stories high with a basement and a two-tier attic, built from sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings, demonstrating high-quality masonry. It has a steeply pitched slate roof, banded quoin pilasters, and string courses.
The front center is marked by tall, narrow William and Mary windows, flanked by shallow gabled breaks. These breaks contain mullioned canted bay windows with deep parapets on the ground floor, while the attic level features open, scrolled, carved pediment windows with scroll-decorated aprons. The first tier of the attic includes two large hipped roof dormers, and the second tier has five tall, narrow pedimented dormers, with the center flanked by tall corniced ashlar chimney stacks.
A recessed arched porch is located at the center of the front, with flanking pilaster strips that rise to a strapwork carved date panel. To the north, there is a short wing built around 1900, featuring an ogee domed stair tower that connects to a large two-story circular ward and operating theatre block from the same period. This section has tall, narrow windows on sill courses and small broken scrolled pediments set on string courses above the first-floor window heads. A tall octagonal chimney rises from the center of this block, and a delicate cast iron balustrade adorns the parapet.
Local climate
Main Block Fronting Road to Bradford Children's Hospital 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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