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Description: Nos. 4-22 (even), Arcade Royale (Now 16-18 King Edward St & 26-28 Southgate)

Address: Arcade Royale Southgate Halifax Calderdale

Grade: II

Group detail: King Edwards Street (north side)

Full description:
Includes: Arcade Royale, Nos. 28 and 30 Southgate, Halifax Shopping arcade. Opened 5 October 1912. By Clement Williams and Sons, Halifax for Walter Midgley. Marvo composite glazed stone, terracotta and reinforced concrete floors. Marvo and terracotta by Leeds Fireclay Co. Rectangular block with main entrance on King Edward Street, arcade inserted though Nos. 28 and 30 Commercial Street (qv), and further entrance on Southgate. Free Baroque style. EXTERIOR: two low storeys, 1:1:3:3:3:1 x 4 windows. Elevation to King Edward Street has renewed glazed doors in entrance at left under semi-circular overlight with elaborate wrought iron grille; door surround of pilasters with decorated capitals supporting moulded arch under deep dripmould. ARCADE ROYALE in large faience letters over door; balustraded roof parapet above. At right, main elevation has end and central pavilions, the left domed with renewed glazing to ground floor shop. First floor has panelled pilasters with top cartouches which support elaborately stepped cornice breading forward over inner Ionic attached columns. Set back between these, a curved place glass window with shallow segmental heads and slim mullions, with art nouveau motif on entablature; set back above this window a tall round-headed light has art nouveau glazing bars; window surround has hollow chamfer and long keystone rising to semicircular pediment with deep modillions. Pilasters supporting pediment rise at either side as short domed piers flanking tall octagonal lantern with faience panelled dome. Central pavilion has central curved window on first floor flanked by round first floor arches under extended keystone from eaves parapet, with end drop panels; right end pavilion had dripstring over round headed window. Intermediate bays have linking full width ground floor cornices, and 3 light mullion and transom windows below recessed panels, the bays defined by paired long brackets to modillioned eaves cornice with blocking course. Low pitched roofs hipped behind central and right pavilions. Right return to Southgate has arched second bay with ARCADE ROYALE below curved bay window, and octagonal dome tower behind. INTERIOR: shows detail obscured by shop fittings. The former Arcade survives on upper floor with wooden glazed roof and original windows. Single faience tiled staircase survives to basement. Part of a very significant group of buildings in the middle of the town in the vicinity of the Town Hall (qv), Borough Market (qv), and Lloyds Bank (qv). (Gee S: Old Halifax: 1987-:17).