Numbers 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 And 23 And Including Boundary Wall, Piers, Steps And Railings

Numbers 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, and 23, including the boundary wall, piers, steps, and railings, are located on Station Road in Batley. This building, dating from around 1870, was formerly used for industrial or warehousing purposes and is now a shop with part of it disused. It features an Italian Gothic facade made of ashlar stone and has a pitched slate roof. The structure consists of three storeys and a basement, with a decorative frieze between the ground and first floors and a simple double string course between the first and second floors.

Positioned on a corner site, the building has eight bays by three bays, with two additional bays across the corner, topped by a steep pyramidal roof covered in fishscale slating and adorned with decorative ironwork. The doorways and windows are round-arched, featuring alternately coloured voussoirs and pointed hood moulds. The ground floor openings are embellished with carved grotesque bats and beasts at the points of intersection and are separated by paired engaged columns with foliated capitals depicting acanthus, vines, thistles, roses, and passion flowers. Each door has an oculus in the tympanum above it, and the panelled double doors include some with an elaborately foliated frieze.

The ground floor windows have an ashlar apron with five plain shields, while the first floor windows display alternately coloured voussoirs and an impost band, richly carved with various types of foliage. The second floor windows form a continuous range, with two windows per bay. Arched brackets support a moulded eaves cornice with a blocking course on the eight-bay facade, and a perforated parapet crowns the two shorter facades. The left elevation consists of five storeys and four bays of plain windows, featuring segmental shouldered, square, and round-arched heads on the first, second, third, and fourth floors respectively, along with later shop windows on the ground floor.