54, Little Horton Lane BD5 is a Grade II* listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Asymmetrical villa. 3 related planning applications.

54, Little Horton Lane BD5

WRENN ID
south-hearth-twilight
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Asymmetrical villa
Address
54, Little Horton Lane BD5, Trident, BD5 0BS
OS grid reference
SE 159 325
Coordinates
53.78907, -1.75879
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

54 Little Horton Lane is a Grade II* listed villa, built around 1850-1860, showcasing a sophisticated asymmetrical design. The building is two storeys high and constructed from finely dressed sandstone, featuring a three-bay front that is slightly set back on a low terrace. It has a hipped stone slate roof with flat eaves supported by elongated modillion brackets and corniced chimneys. The villa has a plinth and a first-floor plat band.

The recessed section of the front includes two broad first-floor sash windows with horizontal glazing bars set in shallow reveals, and a tripartite ground floor window with risers to the sill. The break in the façade has three narrow first-floor windows and a plain canted bay window on the ground floor. A recessed entrance next to the break features a panelled door.

Attached to the south side of the villa is a large single-storey wing, likely built as a ballroom. This wing slightly projects from the main house and features a large Venetian window at its center, with an arch that integrates into a deep entablature below a full-width bracketed pediment. Inside, the ballroom boasts a spacious, lofty room with a ribbed and compartmented barrel vaulted ceiling, decorated with husk and rinceaux garlands. On the south side, the vault is pierced by two round-headed windows with a concentric glazing pattern. The ribs of the vault spring from a deeply moulded cornice, supported by large consoles around all four walls. The west wall features bold pilaster swags and ribbons, while the north wall has a heavy carved wood chimney piece with a mirror over-mantel and a scrolled open pediment. Surrounding the house and ballroom is a low terrace, enclosed by a cast iron interlinked circle railing with stone dies capped by cornices.

Local climate

54, Little Horton Lane BD5 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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