Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1982. Town hall, chapel. 2 related planning applications.

Town Hall

WRENN ID
lunar-buttress-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 April 1982
Type
Town hall, chapel
Address
Town Hall, Main Street, Bingley, BD16 1SE
OS grid reference
SE 118 369
Coordinates
53.82851, -1.82197
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Town Hall, built around 1864, originally served as a non-denominational chapel and town hall combined. It features dressed stone and a Welsh blue-slate roof. The building is two stories high with a symmetrical three-bay facade, where the central bay projects forward. A plinth runs along the base, and there is a sill band at the first floor level. The doorway is flanked by pilasters and has panelled spandrels leading to a fan-light arch, topped with a cornice on elongated consoles. The windows on either side of the doorway have cornices supported by console brackets.

On the first floor, the central window is round-arched, while the flanking windows have stilted archivolts with keystones. A dentilled cornice runs along the top, with a break in the middle bay, which is flanked by pairs of consoles. Above this break is a volute-supported clock face with a curved cornice, topped by a bellcote. The roof is hipped, and the left and right return walls each have five bays. The first bay features a two-light window with a single light above it. The remaining bays are set back from the chapel and contain four bays of tall round-headed windows with archivolts on consoles and intersecting glazing bars at the heads, with the fifth bay being blind. A dentilled cornice continues along the top, and there is a lateral stack and a ventilator on the ridge.

Local climate

Town Hall 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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