The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph And Argus Building

The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph and Argus Building is a large trade warehouse located on Hall Ings in Bradford. Designed by Andrews and Delanney between 1851 and 1853 for the drapery firm of Milligan and Forbes, who both served as mayors of Bradford, it is notable for being the first Italian palazzo front in the city. The building features a five-storey elevation made of ashlar sandstone, with a strong horizontal emphasis created by the horizontal grooving of the ground floor and the moulded sill bands, along with balustraded stone balconies on the first floor.

The design includes a deep cornice with dentil enrichment and modillion brackets, as well as chamfered rusticated quoins. The ground floor windows are framed by pilasters, and the first-floor windows are flanked by strips with console brackets that support broken entablatures featuring enriched friezes. The cornices above serve as broken forward sills for the second-floor windows, which have archivolt arches topped with triangular bracketed pediments. The top floor windows are flanked by very elongated shallow consoles that act as pilaster strips surrounding square architrave surrounds.

The rear elevation mirrors these details but is only four storeys high, and due to the closer spacing of the windows, the decorative features are applied to alternate windows. The building is situated on an important site adjacent to St George's Hall.