Shipley College Including Railings to Right and to Left and to Both Sides of Railway Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. College. 3 related planning applications.

Shipley College Including Railings to Right and to Left and to Both Sides of Railway Steps

WRENN ID
ancient-roof-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1985
Type
College
Address
Shipley College Including Railings to Right and to Left and to Both Sides of Railway Steps, Victoria Road
OS grid reference
SE 139 380
Coordinates
53.83865, -1.78991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shipley College, originally a dining room for a mill, was built around 1853 by Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with seven bays. The central door has eight deep panels set within an eared architrave. Flanking the door are three bays on each side, framed by pilasters that support a full entablature with a bracketed cornice. Each bay contains a window. Above the central bay is the Salt coat of arms, which is supported by scrolls, topped with an open pediment and adorned with a festooned base. The roof is hipped, and the rear elevation has three gables, each featuring a semicircular window. The left side of the building has five tall panels with altered windows and corniced heads. There are later additions on the right side and at the rear.

The railings return to the building on both the right and left sides, with those on the left continuing down both sides of the railway steps. These railings are made of cast iron, with square-section railings and square cast-iron piers topped with pyramidal caps.

In the dining room, approximately 600 breakfasts and 700 dinners were served daily. Shipley College is part of the Saltaire model village.

Local climate

Shipley College Including Railings to Right and to Left and to Both Sides of Railway Steps sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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