Mechanics Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1975. Institution. 1 related planning application.
Mechanics Institute
- WRENN ID
- tired-dormer-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1975
- Type
- Institution
- Address
- Mechanics Institute, Main Street, Wilsden
- OS grid reference
- SE 092 363
- Coordinates
- 53.82374, -1.8611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mechanics Institute, now a restaurant, was built in 1837. It features hammer-dressed stone and a Welsh blue-slate roof. The building has two storeys at the front and left-hand return, and three storeys at the right-hand return. The symmetrical facade has three bays, with a doorway that has monolithic jambs, consoles, and a cornice, topped by a Gothic glazed overlight. Above the doorway is a plaque engraved "MECHANICS INSTITUTION 1837." On both floors, there are windows with projecting sills on either side of the entrance. The building has a moulded stone gutter and a hipped roof. The right-hand return consists of six bays with three cottage doorways in the basement and single-light and two-light windows on each floor. The institute once housed a library of 4,000 volumes, a lecture room (now a ballroom), and a museum.
Local climate
Mechanics Institute sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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