Council Offices

The Council Offices, formerly the School Board Offices, were built in 1893 and designed by James Lechingham of Bradford. The building features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof adorned with terracotta ridge tiles. It has ashlar coved gables and includes a gable and two wall stacks. Architectural details include quoins, chamfered plinths, a moulded first floor band, and eaves. The structure is two storeys high with a prominent basement, situated on a curved corner site.

The basement has two two-light windows. The central feature on the main façade is a three-light cross casement window set in a raised and moulded ashlar surround, flanked by single similar two-light windows. To the left, there is a doorway with an overlight and a hood mould, followed by a similar three-light window and an oval window with an ornate surround. To the right, a tall four-centred arched doorway is framed by an ashlar pilaster surround and a carved frieze, topped with a double overlight and a panel pilaster surround, a shell hood, and flanking ball finials. Beyond this doorway is another two-light cross casement window.

Above the entrance, there is a three-light oriel window with a round-headed central light and a four-part overlight, all within a moulded ashlar pilaster surround supported on brackets. This is topped by a carved frieze and a gabled pediment inscribed 'SCHOOL BOARD OFFICES', with flanking ball finials. On either side of the oriel window are single two-light cross casements in raised ashlar surrounds with bracket hoods. To the left, there is a pair of similar two-light cross casements, while to the right, a truncated wall stack features a scroll gabled base inscribed '1893'. There is also a truncated external stack with a bracket corbel and a plain scrolled gable base, followed by a circular window with a raised keystone surround and another two-light cross casement. The building is topped with a square slate-hung lantern featuring a pyramidal slate roof.