The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph and Argus Building is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1963. Warehouse.
The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph and Argus Building
- WRENN ID
- silent-obsidian-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1963
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph and Argus Building, Hall Ings
- OS grid reference
- SE 165 329
- Coordinates
- 53.79273, -1.75077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
The Yorkshire Sports, Telegraph and Argus Building 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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