Institute for the Blind is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Institution. 8 related planning applications.
Institute for the Blind
- WRENN ID
- swift-truss-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Institution
- Address
- Institute for the Blind, 2-12, North Parade Bd1, BD1 3HT
- OS grid reference
- SE 161 334
- Coordinates
- 53.79673, -1.75581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Institute for the Blind, located at Nos 2 to 12 North Parade, Bradford, with an additional frontage on Upper Piccadilly, was built in 1868 and designed by Knowles and Wilcock. It is a Domestic Gothic style building situated on an important corner site. The building is constructed of roughly dressed sandstone that resembles brick, with ashlar dressings. It is three storeys high and features a splayed gabled corner, gabled dormers on both frontages, and moulded saddlestones. The windows are mullioned-transomed, with an oriel bay window incorporated into the corner. Pierced quatrefoils are present in the gables, and the roof has a steep pitch covered in slate. Modern shop fronts have been added. Nos 10 and 12 have plain two-storey fronts with slate roofs and sash windows, also with modern shop fronts.
Local climate
Institute for the Blind 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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