Premises Occupied by Sharp and Law is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Offices. 3 related planning applications.
Premises Occupied by Sharp and Law
- WRENN ID
- scarred-arch-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Premises Occupied by Sharp and Law, Carlisle Road, BD8 8BD
- OS grid reference
- SE 151 343
- Coordinates
- 53.80566, -1.77096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises occupied by Sharp and Law, built around 1905, are Baroque-style offices featuring a large, two-storey symmetrical front with nine bays and shallow one-bay wings on either side. The building is constructed of sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings, showcasing massive rustication at the basement and plinth levels. It has long and short quoins, a bold bracketed cornice, and an ashlar parapet that rises over the wings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and includes a central cupola with a clock turret, which has an entablature that projects at the corners, supported by Doric columns. The large windows are framed with architrave surrounds, while the ground floor windows of the wings feature open pediments and large keystones. The central entrance portal is accentuated by rusticated Ionic pilasters and an open segmental pediment. The front elevation is the most notable aspect of this building, which was originally constructed as a works.
Local climate
Premises Occupied by Sharp and Law 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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