Tea Room, Balustrade And Flanking Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Tea room.

Tea Room, Balustrade And Flanking Steps

WRENN ID
sombre-span-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Tea room
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE13NW BAILDON ROBERTS PARK 5El38383

6/32 Tea-room, balustrade and flanking steps

GV II

Tea-room, now used as store. 1870 by Lockwood and Mawson. Hammer- dressed stone, ashlar, stone flagged roof. Semicircular projection from raised terrace the roof being used as viewing balcony with steps to either side. 4 tall doorways with monolithic jambs with French windows, set between slight projections with rusticated quoins. Central feature with carved semicircular-arched recess with shell motif recessed for drinking fountain on pedestal. Entablature, cornice and low balustrade with 5 circles set over doorways. Date to centre. To either side 2 flights of steps with ½ landing and matching balustrade. Roof formed by platform, approached up 3 steps on which is set the statue of Sir Titus Salt (q.v.) a later insertion. Part of the park, opened in 1871, for the model village of Saltaire.

Contemporary illustration in J. Reynolds, Saltaire, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums City Trail No 2, (no date) p29.

Listing NGR: SE1381438337

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