HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE)

HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE), LEES HOUSE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300477
Date first listed:: 02-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE), LEES HOUSE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300477
Date first listed:: 02-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE), LEES HOUSE ROAD

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH OF THORNHILL LEES CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL (FORMER SCHOOL AND SCHOOLMASTERS HOUSE), LEES HOUSE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 24151 20195

Details

DEWSBURY CB LEES HOUSE ROAD SE 22 SW (Thornhill Lees)

2/63 House immediately to south of Thornhill Lees C. of E. school (former school & school-master's house)

G.V. II

School and School Master's House. Circa 1858. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with copings on large cut kneelers. Two good ornamental stacks. Single storey except for the 2-storey house. Near-symmetrical design. Cross-wing to left and right, the former projecting. Each cross-wing contains a 3-light window with hood which continues over stilted arched tympanum to centre light. The tympanum has incised decoration. In each gable apex is the Savile coat of arms and motto BE FAST. Wrought iron decorative finial to each apex. The centre part has a projecting open porch, to right, up 5 steps, with engaged colonnettes with foliage capitals supporting a moulded, cusped arch. To the left is a 6-light window with king mullion and similarly detailed to the windows of the cross- wings. The right return is similarly treated and at the rear the 2-storey house is in the same style.

Listing NGR: SE2415120195

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Legacy System number:: 340748
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.