Description

1.
5111 PICCADILLY BD1
(west side)

No 1
SE 1633 SW 36/955

II GV

2.
Includes No 32 Kirkgate. Corner site with Kirkgate. Built as the Exchange
Rooms in 1828. A Greek Revival design considerably altered on ground floor
with C18 shop fronts. Sandstone ashlar, 2-storeys with cornice and deep blind
attic. Windows contained in vertical panels. Pediment applied to attic over
entrance bay with pilaster framed first floor window. Recessed porch with
flanking pilasters and Greek Doric columns in antis, deep entablature with
2 laurel wreaths. Narrow splayed-corner. Kirkgate front has applied pediment
to attic supported by pilaster strip frame and 2 pairs of pilasters rising from
blind balustrade across first floor. Later glazing to windows. Important
corner site. Much altered. Included as the only public building remaining
from the early C19 and indicative of the new status of Bradford in its rapid
evolution from market town to city consequent on the industrialisation of the
textile trade.

Listing NGR: SE1635233219

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425869

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)