Mechanics Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Institute. 2 related planning applications.
Mechanics Institute
- WRENN ID
- calm-obsidian-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford East MP: Imran Hussain (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Institute
- Address
- Mechanics Institute, Stone Hall Road Bd2, BD2 2EW
- OS grid reference
- SE 180 360
- Coordinates
- 53.82062, -1.72722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mechanics Institute, dated 1868, is a two-storey building located on Stone Hall Road in Eccleshill. It features a pediment gable front made of ashlar stone, topped with a finial. The façade has three bays, with an impost string connecting the two outer keyed, arched windows on the first floor, which are flanked by a central group of three windows. The ground floor has pilastered and corniced doorways on either side of a tripartite window, which also has a cornice above it. The side elevations are adorned with plain round-headed windows.
Local climate
Mechanics Institute receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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