Main Block to St Paul's School and School Houses Including Numbers 5 and 7 Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. School.

Main Block to St Paul's School and School Houses Including Numbers 5 and 7 Church Street

WRENN ID
sombre-brass-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
School
Address
Main Block to St Paul's School and School Houses Including Numbers 5 and 7 Church Street, Ambler Street
OS grid reference
SE 152 345
Coordinates
53.80669, -1.76991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The main block of St Paul's School and the school houses, including numbers 5 and 7 Church Street, were built around 1870-1880. This High Victorian Gothic structure features two and three storeys and is situated on an island site. It is constructed from sandstone with ashlar dressings. The design includes crossways, mullioned windows, and a large plate tracery colonetted window in the cross wings. There is a tower porch with lancet windows, a short broached octagonal belfry, and a machicolated base supporting a small slate spire. The pair of school houses to the north are two storeys high, featuring a double gabled break and canted bays. They have paired windows with four-centred arched lights, set back flanking entrance bays with three-light mullioned windows, and four-centred arched doorways. Both the school and the school houses have steeply pitched roofs covered with shaped slates and overhanging eaves.

Local climate

Main Block to St Paul's School and School Houses Including Numbers 5 and 7 Church Street 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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