Bradford College, Cathedral Building is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Educational building. 1 related planning application.
Bradford College, Cathedral Building
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-marble-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- Bradford College, Cathedral Building, Captain Street, BD1 4EL
- OS grid reference
- SE 167 335
- Coordinates
- 53.79794, -1.74701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bradford College, Cathedral Building is a two-storey structure built around 1875. It features a long range with canted terminal bays and a central tower designed in the 13th-century Gothic style, topped with a truncated slate spire. The building has a gabled porch supported by large columns with stiff leaf capitals, and a large lunette window above the porch. Additionally, there is a rose window located at the bell stage of the tower.
Local climate
Bradford College, Cathedral Building 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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