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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Mill complex
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 1338 SE SHIPLEY VICTORIA ROAD (east side) Saltaire
8/139 Saltaire Mills - the entrance block
GV II*
Entrance and office block to mill complex. 1851-53. By Lockwood and Mawson, for Titus Salt. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys with basement level at left due to sloping ground. Italianate-style symmetrical facade of 20 bays arranged A. B. C. B. A. The frontispiece of 3 bays has a giant portal with round-arched head extending into the 1st storey, and is surmounted by a tall turret with segmental pediment and flanking scrolls. To each side of the portal is a 3-light canted bay with round-arched centre light. Bays B have 6 windows to each floor, round-arched to ground floor with rusticated voussoirs, and with cambered head to 1st floor. Bays A project one bay and are 3 windows wide as before. Deep bracketed cornice. Hipped roof.
Interior not inspected.
Part of Saltaire model village.
Listing NGR: SE1397638092
Detailed Attributes
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