4-80, Cavendish Street

Row of 38 shops with offices over on Cavendish Street in Keighley, built in phases between 1899 and 1907 as a speculative development. The street was widened to create a broad thoroughfare from the Railway Station of 1882.

The buildings are constructed in coursed rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings, featuring slate roofs with 35 stacks, some truncated. The row is predominantly three storeys with attics.

Nos 4 to 10 are in coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, comprising a 4-bay west front with a single-bay chamfered corner and a 3-bay gabled south front. They feature plaster strips with moulded bands at first and second floor levels and moulded eaves, plus a first-floor moulded impost band. No 4 has an ashlar Doric column shop front with 20th-century windows and a corner doorway with diamond glazing overlight. Above this are a round-headed 2-light window on the west and a narrower similar window to the corner, both with keystones. To the east is a central tall divided stair window flanked by single plain sashes. The second floor has a pair of plain sashes to the east, a similar sash to the corner, and 2 sashes to the east. The east front is topped with a large combined stack and gable featuring 2 round-headed windows and ball finials. Nos 6, 8 and 10 each have a 20th-century shop front with iron and glass canopy, above which are 3 round-headed 3-light windows with keystones. Above these are 4 single and a pair of plain sashes, topped with 2 and 3-light 20th-century dormers and a 2-light dormer.

Nos 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 are in ashlar with 5 bays and 5 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies. Above are 5 2-light cross casements in moulded ashlar surrounds with carved panels above, linking with 5 further cross casements. Nos 16 and 18 are flanked by plain buttresses rising to ogee-capped stone finials with a pedimented gable between, featuring 2 small windows flanking a central buttress. To the left is a 2-light dormer with sashes, and to the right are 2 20th-century dormers.

Nos 22 and 24 are in coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring moulded first and second-floor bands and flanking pilasters. There are 2 bays with 2 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies. Above are 2 canted oriel windows with plain sashes, above which are 2 pairs of plain sashes with moulded ashlar surrounds. These are topped with 2 segment-headed gable dormers.

Nos 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 are in ashlar with 5 bays and 5 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies. Above are pilaster strips to the outer bays, a central triple window flanked by 2 3-light cross casements with moulded surrounds and carved upper panels linked to similar upper windows. The upper central bay has 3 windows with flanking pilasters and above a large scroll pediment with a pair of central sashes flanked by smaller sashes. Either side are 2 3-light dormer windows.

Nos 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 are in ashlar with 5 bays, 5 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies, pilaster strips between bays and dentilated eaves. Above are 5 3-light casements with plain ashlar surrounds and flat hoods, repeated on the floor above. The central bay is topped by an open segmental pediment.

Nos 46, 48 and 50 are in ashlar with 3 bays, 3 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies, pilaster strips between bays and dentilated eaves. Above are central 3 windows with plain ashlar surrounds and flat hoods, flanked by single 3-light similar windows. The upper floor has similar fenestration, with the central bay topped by a segment-headed gable containing a segment-headed 3-light casement.

Nos 52 and 54 are in coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, with 2 bays and 2 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies. Above are 2 2-storey canted bay windows in raised ashlar surrounds, each featuring a Venetian window and moulded hood, each bay topped by an open moulded segmental pediment flanked by vase finials.

No 56 is in ashlar, a single bay with a 20th-century shop front with iron and glass canopy. Above are moulded cill bands, outer pilaster strips and dentilated eaves. The windows comprise a central 2-light casement flanked by single-light similar windows, all with plain ashlar surrounds and flat hoods. The upper floor has similar fenestration.

Nos 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74 and 76 are in ashlar with 9 bays and 9 20th-century shop fronts with iron and glass canopies. Above are pilaster strips between bays and dentilated eaves. The central and outer bays are gabled with canted bay windows between, with 3 3-light casements with plain ashlar surrounds and flat hoods on either side. The floor above has 9 similar 3-light windows. The central pedimented gable has a small 3-light casement in a similar surround, while the outer segment-headed gables have similar 3-light casements with segment heads.

Nos 78 and 80 are in ashlar with 5 windows. There is a large shop front and office entrance doorway to the right with an iron and glass canopy. Above are 4 casements in plain ashlar surrounds with flat hoods, while to the left is a 3-light corner bay window with similar surrounds. The floor above has a similar fenestration pattern with moulded surrounds and keystones. Above are a single and a 3-light dormer, and to the left an octagonal ashlar cupola with casements topped by an ashlar dome with a short spire.

The ten shops in the first phase were designed by J Judson and Moore for the Yorks Land Company in 1899. Five shops designed by Barber Hopkinson for J W Midgley followed in 1902, and eight shops designed by Moore and Crabtree for the Yorks Land Company were completed in 1907.