Austral House is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Block of chambers, warehousing.
Austral House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-bonework-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Block of chambers, warehousing
- Address
- Austral House, 51 and 53, Well Street Bd1, BD1 5PS
- OS grid reference
- SE 167 331
- Coordinates
- 53.79414, -1.7477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Austral House, located at Nos 51 and 53 on Well Street, was built between 1865 and 1869, likely by Eli Milnes. This large five-storey building features chambers with warehousing at the rear. Unusually for the "Little Germany" area, the exterior showcases bold Gothic detailing. The structure is made of millstone grit ashlar with finer sandstone dressings and intricate carvings. It has ten window bays on the main block, with slight breaks of two bays flanked by steep gables. The building is topped with sharply modelled plinth capping, sill courses, and narrow carved machicolations at the eaves. Above, there are masonry gablets with wrought iron work in between. The ground floor is marked by large polished pink granite columns with foliate caps, while grey granite corner shafts frame the window bays on the first floor. Each floor features incised, stencil-patterned bands and window arches, with unique carvings. The top floor is designed as a gallery, highlighted by polished grey granite shafts, and there is a richly carved tympanum over the main doorway.
Local climate
Austral House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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