Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Institution. 1 related planning application.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- secret-pinnacle-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Institution
- Address
- Church House, North Parade Bd1, BD1 3HT
- OS grid reference
- SE 161 334
- Coordinates
- 53.79695, -1.75597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House was built as the Church Institute between 1871 and 1873, designed by architects Andrews and Pepper. It features a large and boldly detailed facade in a free interpretation of French Gothic style. The building has a five-bay front made of ashlar sandstone, rising three storeys high, with a prominent second-floor pointed arcade that includes two-light shafted plate traceried windows. The outer spandrels have projecting heads in roundels, and there are corbelled shafts that support heavy carved corbel-bases intended for statues. Above, large pinnacled canopies are present, along with a moulded bracketed cornice and a pierced parapet. The central tall gabled dormer is flanked by pinnacles and has additional crowning pinnacles. The mezzanine first floor features mullioned windows, and there are gargoyles at the end bays. The ground floor has flanking shafted portals, with a modern shop front inserted between them.
Local climate
Church House 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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