| Description | Hospital, now old people's home. Dated 1868. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Pitch faced stone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys. Italianate style ordered but asymmetrical facade of 11 bays. Several bays break forward and are gabled. Windows are round arched and single light, or paired with central colonnette and some have decorative friezes. Larger windows have cambered heads. All have pointed hoodmould. The doorway to left, with C20 door, has fanlight with glazed words ' SIR TITUS SALT's HOSPITAL /1868 ' and carved above ' OPENED SEPT /1868 '. To the right is an open porch with central colonnette infilled with C20 glazing, with inner glazing reading ' PRIVATE ENTRANCE ' and ' SIR TITUS SALT'S HOSPITAL '. Band between floors. Bracketed eaves. Modillioned gables, the tympanum of one being richly carved with foliage with central roundel. Tall stacks with modillioned cornices.
The left facade, on Saltaire Road, is symmetrical with the gabled centre bay breaking forward, its tympanum enriched with foliage and the Salt coat of arms. Central 3 light canted bay window to ground floor; central 2nd floor triple group window with a panel below with raised letters ' SIR TITUS SALT's HOSPITAL '. Flanking windows are paired with round arched lights and central colonnettes. Bracketed eaves and modillioned gable. The rear elevation is plainer, but the right end, nearest Saltaire Road is treated as the main facades.
Attached to the left facade is a dwarf wall with square ashlar piers with decorative pyramidal 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. |