Saltaire Mills - the Entrance Block is a Grade II* listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Mill complex. 2 related planning applications.
Saltaire Mills - the Entrance Block
- WRENN ID
- low-gutter-elder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Mill complex
- Address
- Saltaire Mills - the Entrance Block, Victoria Road, Shipley, BD18 3LF
- OS grid reference
- SE 139 380
- Coordinates
- 53.83891, -1.7891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance and office block of Saltaire Mills was built between 1851 and 1853 by architects Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys, with a basement level on the left due to the sloping ground. The facade is designed in an Italianate style and is symmetrical, consisting of 20 bays arranged in the pattern A. B. C. B. A.
The central section, or frontispiece, has three bays and includes a giant portal with a round-arched head that extends into the first storey. This portal is topped by a tall turret with a segmental pediment and flanking scrolls. On either side of the portal are canted bays with three lights, featuring a round-arched centre light. The B bays contain six windows on each floor, with round arches on the ground floor supported by rusticated voussoirs, and cambered heads on the first floor. The A bays project one bay and are three windows wide, similar to the others. The building is finished with a deep bracketed cornice and a hipped roof.
The interior has not been inspected. This structure is part of the Saltaire model village.
Local climate
Saltaire Mills - the Entrance Block 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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