32, KIRKGATE (See details for further address information)

1. 5111 PICCADILLY BD1 (west side)

No 1 SE 1633 SW 36/955

II GV

1. Includes No 32 Kirkgate. Corner site with Kirkgate. Built as the Exchange Rooms in 1828. A Greek Revival design considerably altered on ground floor with C18 shop fronts. Sandstone ashlar, 2-storeys with cornice and deep blind attic. Windows contained in vertical panels. Pediment applied to attic over entrance bay with pilaster framed first floor window. Recessed porch with flanking pilasters and Greek Doric columns in antis, deep entablature with 2 laurel wreaths. Narrow splayed-corner. Kirkgate front has applied pediment to attic supported by pilaster strip frame and 2 pairs of pilasters rising from blind balustrade across first floor. Later glazing to windows. Important corner site. Much altered. Included as the only public building remaining from the early C19 and indicative of the new status of Bradford in its rapid evolution from market town to city consequent on the industrialisation of the textile trade.

Listing NGR: SE1635233219