The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph And Argus Building

1. 5111 HALL INGS BD1

The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph

and Argus Building SE 1632 46/134 14.6.63

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1. The first Italian palazzo front in Bradford, a large home trade warehouse designed by Andrews and Delanney 1851-53 for the drapery firm of Milligan and Forbes (both partners served as mayors of Bradford). Five-storeys, ashlar sandstone elevation to Hall Ings with strong horizontal emphasis provided by the horizontal grooving of the ground floor and the moulded sill bands and balustraded stone balconies on the first floor. Dentil enriched, deep modillion bracket eaves cornice, Chamfered rusticated quoins. Pilaster framed groumd floor windows, flanking strips first floor, with console brackets supporting broken entablatures with enriched friezes, the cornices serving as broken forward sills to the second floor windows which have archivolt arches surmounted by triangular bracketed pediments; very elongated shallow consoles used as pilaster strips flanking square architrave surround top floor windows. The rear elevation has similar details but is of 4-storeys only and due to closer window spacing the decorative features are applied only to alternate windows. Important site adjacent to St George's Hall.

Listing NGR: SE1651632962