| Description | Almshouses. Dated 1868. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Pitch faced stone. Welsh slate roof. A symmetrical U shaped composition around Alexandra Square in Italianate style. One and 2 storeys with alternate gabled and entrance bays. The end blocks and 4 intermediate blocks are 2 storeyed and gabled. The 3 bay, 2 storey central block has gabled outer bays with enriched tympana each with roundel with initials: 'T. S. ' to left and ' C. S. ' to right. Also the motto 'QUID NON DEO JUVANTE' with palm and oak leaf support and a small alpaca as crest. Central, square, bell turret with pedimented top, inscribed 'OPENED / SEPTEMBER /1868'. Paired entrances, with 4 panel doors, in open porches with central colonnettes. Paired round arched sash window with central colonnettes, some with decorative friezes. Bracketed eaves and modillioned gables. Tall stacks with cornices. Left and right returns and end blocks treated similarly.
In the porches of Nos 38 and 35 are 2 upright stone slabs with the names of residents, the lst, 1868 75, inscribed 'HERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING AND THE WEARY BE AT REST', the 2nd 1875 78, inscribed 'BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD'.
On the south side, to Bingley Road, is attached wall with ashlar coping, 6 square ashlar piers with decorated caps, and 2 lengths of square section arcaded cast iron railings with square cast iron piers.
On the north side, to Saltaire Road, is attached garden wall with one pair of square ashlar gate piers and 3 single piers with decorated caps.
Part of Saltaire model village.
These houses were also photographed by Bradford Council as part of their Listed Buildings at Risk Survey in 1994.
A copy of the above information including photographs, is held online at the offices of West Yorkshire HER. |