Report - Dewsbury Union Offices, West Yorkshire - June 2021

[UrbanDoll]

History

Not much history available for this building. It was used as a registry office for weddings, births and deaths up until 2012 when the services moved over to Dewsbury town hall. Since then there was some planning permission applied for in 2018 for the building to be turned into a hostel. Unfortunately planning permission was rejected so the building lays derelict still. It wont be long until the whole building goes past the point of repair.

Explore

Impromptu visit with @Esoteric Eric , @albino-jay and @host when we spotted it from the pub. Small explore nothing special but still some nice features.

Starting from the entrance hall. Modern signage with the original ceiling details

One of the ground floor rooms - as you can see the building is in a really poor state. Original flower ceiling rosette next to some upgraded modern lighting.

Next we head down to the basement. The entry to this room was through a cell like barred door. The room opposite with a single urinal and nothing else.

Back upstairs leads to a lovely cast iron stair case

Ok last photo of the stairs now

Ceiling above the stairs

Upstairs rooms

Finally finishing with a photo of the ceiling in this room shown above

Thanks for looking , UD​

 

[UrbandonedTeam]

Very nice! Was looking at this fairly recently after triggering the loudest alarm in one of those ‘abandoned’ Yorkshire mills. Then had the annual look at the library. Great architecture

 

[host]

Great report you made it look really nice.

 

[UrbanDoll]

Great report you made it look really nice.

Definitely nicer than it was

 

[Jane Doe]

That is beautiful inside , very ornate and the staircase is really lovely ... enjoyed looking at your photos

 

[albino-jay]

You’ve made it look way better than it was! Great job.

 

[Olkka]

To be honest, it's actually not as bland as I assumed. I got to my boy's stag do on time too sorry if I rushed y'all haha

 

[HughieD]

Some really lovely features both internally and externally. Live bonus explores like these. Great work @UrbanDoll

 

[UrbanDoll]

To be honest, it's actually not as bland as I assumed. I got to my boy's stag do on time too sorry if I rushed y'all haha

Haha it’s fine you didn’t rush us. Hope you had a good time!

 

[Calamity Jane]

Thats got some beautiful features. Very ornate and lovely, Mixed with a degree of decay. Beauty & the beast. :

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Nice bit of architecture that, well done

 

[stevenjamie57]

History

Not much history available for this building. It was used as a registry office for weddings, births and deaths up until 2012 when the services moved over to Dewsbury town hall. Since then there was some planning permission applied for in 2018 for the building to be turned into a hostel. Unfortunately planning permission was rejected so the building lays derelict still. It wont be long until the whole building goes past the point of repair.

Explore

Impromptu visit with @Esoteric Eric , @albino-jay and @host when we spotted it from the pub. Small explore nothing special but still some nice features.

Starting from the entrance hall. Modern signage with the original ceiling details

One of the ground floor rooms - as you can see the building is in a really poor state. Original flower ceiling rosette next to some upgraded modern lighting.

Next we head down to the basement. The entry to this room was through a cell like barred door. The room opposite with a single urinal and nothing else.

Back upstairs leads to a lovely cast iron stair case

Ok last photo of the stairs now

Ceiling above the stairs

Upstairs rooms

Finally finishing with a photo of the ceiling in this room shown above

Thanks for looking , UD​

I dread to think what it would cost to build something like this now, particularly the ceilings.