A LEISURE complex in Bradford city centre is up for auction with a £1 million price tag.

Glydegate Square in The Chester Street - which houses the Tequila nightclub and was formerly home to the Walkabout pub chain, was built in 2002.

Also included in the auction is Fountain House site, a grade II listed Victorian facade of the former Fountain Hall Quaker meeting house in Fountain Street in the city centre.

The lot also includes a gated 16-space car park, and is next to the site where Branwell Bronte, brother to Charlotte, Emily and Anne, took lodgings between 1838 and 1839, and earned a living as a portrait artist, before he took to drink and drugs.

It has a guide price of offers over £150,000 and is being marketed as an opportunity to re-develop the derelict building.

Glenn Levison, associate director at auctioneers Eddisons, said both sites offered potential for developers..

He said: “Both sites in Bradford are a good opportunity for someone to develop prime, city centre locations.

“The Glydegate Square development is being sold as an investment.

“It will be for someone who wants to get £150,000 coming back per year in rent. The existing tenants will stay there.

“Fountain Street has been in its current condition for quite a while.

“West Yorkshire is packed with interesting historic buildings, and we are always amazed at how many we see passing through our auction house.”

Councillor Nazam Azam (Lab, City) welcomed the fact that two prominent city centre buildings could get new owners.

He said: “I don’t know the circumstances about either sale but I think that it is a positive that it is going to auction.

“I hope it turns out to be a good thing that both sites are being sold off.

“Let’s hope that the Fountain Street site will have a positive use. It is a derelict site at the moment.

“Whoever takes up that site, I look forward to working with them to put it back to good use.

“Glydegate Square is such a high profile site too.”

The properties will be among 79 lots to go before an auction at Leeds United’s Elland Road ground on Thursday, May 26, from 12.30pm.

A number of other properties in the Bradford district are also in the sale.

A shop at 57-63 North Parade, Bradford, will also go under the hammer with a guide price of £275,000.

Unit eight, Low Moor Business Park, Common Road, Low Moor, has a £75,000 guide price.

And a vacant site, at 11a Greenside, in Heckmondwike town centre, is also available to buy at the auction for a guide price of £40,000.

The auction, which also includes lots from across Yorkshire, including Leeds, Sheffield and Rotherham, is expected to generate £6.5m.

For more information on the properties available go to eddisons.com/property-auctions

Meanwhile, The Sir Titus Salt pub in Morley Street, Bradford, is one of 33 to be sold off across the UK, chain Wetherspoons has announced. Last year it sold off 12 of its pubs.