Bradford Tradesmens Homes and Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Almshouses and chapel. 1 related planning application.

Bradford Tradesmens Homes and Chapel

WRENN ID
lone-remnant-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Almshouses and chapel
Period
Victorian
Address
Bradford Tradesmens Homes and Chapel, 1-43, Lily Croft, BD8 8QY
OS grid reference
SE 146 344
Coordinates
53.80618, -1.77851
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bradford Tradesmens Homes and Chapel is a group of almshouses built between 1867 and 1878, located in a cul-de-sac off Heaton Road. The homes are arranged around four sides of a rectangular green and were funded by notable Bradford mill owners and industrialists, including Sir Titus Salt, S C Lister, and Isaac Holden. The foundation stone for the north range and its return wings was laid by Sir Titus Salt in 1867.

These single-storey and attic buildings are constructed from sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings and are designed in a simplified High Victorian Gothic style by the Milnes and France partnership. The steeply pitched Welsh slate roof features decorative ridge tiles, and there are large ashlar chimney stacks along the ridge. The eaves overhang on wooden brackets, and the buildings have a single window front with hipped gables to half dormers. The windows have shaped stepped heads, and the doorways are chamfered pointed arches with fanlights.

At the center of the north range is a small chapel, which has a projecting canted front and a clock turret. The chapel features a shafted doorway with a lunette and a wing from the arch, along with a two-light colonetted window set in the gable. Flanking the entrance are two stone lamas that were originally from Sir Titus Salt's home. The chapel windows contain reset German stained glass. The north range connects to the wing ranges through pointed arch gateways.

The south range of almshouses was added in 1878 and shares similar architectural details. It features central and end houses that project forward with gabled fronts, which include canted bay windows. The first-floor windows are paired and are topped with blind pointed lunettes that have quatrefoils. The central gable displays a tiled inscription with the date 1878.

Local climate

Bradford Tradesmens Homes and Chapel 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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