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Bradford, West Yorkshire

Prudential Insurance, 6 Tyrrel Street, Bradford

 

Grade II Listed

 

List Entry Number: 1133642

 

 

Details

 

1. 5111 TYRELL STREET BD1

 

No 6 (Prudential Assurance) SE 1633 SW 36/142

 

II

 

2. Includes No 13 Ivygate and Nos 8 and 10 Sunbridge Road. 1895. A Waterhouse design for the Prudential. Red brick, terracotta and grey granite. Free interpretation of early French Renaissance. Three-storeys with dormers and gables. Three elevations with splayed corners to Sunbridge Road and Ivygate. Round arched doorways and windows on ground floor deeply moulded reveals, stepped sills. Mullioned windows above with weathered strings and panelled aprons. Shallow rectangular oriels at corners with 2 bay arcaded loggias with balconies to third floor. Arcades link gabled dormers, above parapet.

 

Listing NGR: SE1631133066

 

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1133642

 

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Prudential Assurance Buildings, 6 Tyrrel Street, Bradford, 1895.

 

By Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905).

 

Grade ll listed.

 

The only major building in Bradford to be built of red brick and terracotta. The style and materials were those chosen by the company for all its new buildings in order to promote its national image.

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