Head's House at Northways School and Disused Schoolroom Attached on Right
HEAD'S HOUSE AT NORTHWAYS SCHOOL AND DISUSED SCHOOLROOM ATTACHED ON RIGHT, BRAMHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116407
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Head's House at Northways School and Disused Schoolroom Attached on Right
- Statutory Address:
- HEAD'S HOUSE AT NORTHWAYS SCHOOL AND DISUSED SCHOOLROOM ATTACHED ON RIGHT, BRAMHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116407
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Head's House at Northways School and Disused Schoolroom Attached on Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEAD'S HOUSE AT NORTHWAYS SCHOOL AND DISUSED SCHOOLROOM ATTACHED ON RIGHT, BRAMHAM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HEAD'S HOUSE AT NORTHWAYS SCHOOL AND DISUSED SCHOOLROOM ATTACHED ON RIGHT, BRAMHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifford
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 42682 44201
Details
SE 4244-4344 CLIFFORD BRAMHAM ROAD LS23 (west side)
7/94 Head's house at Northways School and disused schoolroom attached on right.
GV II
House and attached schoolroom. 1847 by J. A. Hansom (Pevsner, p.622). Ashlar magnesian limestone, Welsh slate roofs. House: 2 storeys with half basement, 5-bays; schoolroom attached on right of 1 storey and 5 bays, the 4th bay with gabled porch and bell-cote projection. House: doorway to left of centre reached by stone steps with curved side walls having roll-moulded copings and miniature front-end piers; gabled ashlar sandstone porch of later Cl9 date encloses a chamfered, pointed doorway. To each side are basement/ground-floor canted-bay windows with ashlar surrounds to windows of 1:3:1 lights; basement windows have shouldered heads; offsets beneath trefoil-headed ground-floor windows; lead-covered hipped roofs. Basement window to far right is of 3 shouldered lights; C20 casement over. 1st floor: 5, gabled half-dormers with shouldered single-light windows except bay 1 which has matching 2-light window; ashlar copings. End gables have shaped kneelers and ashlar copings with finial on right and end stack on left. Rear: large lateral stack on left has offsets and twin, octagonal flues. Left return: two lst-floor windows of 3 shouldered lights. Right return: glazed quatrefoil on left of stepped 3-light window; apex trefoil. Schoolroom: 4-light, trefoil-headed windows to bay 1-3, matching 3-light window to bay 5. Bay 4 has a small, square porch/bell-cote projection having pointed-arched door under hoodmould with head-carved stops; inscribed ribbon and trefoiled single-light window above; coped gable with bell-cote rising from left return. In angle with schoolroom to left is a small stair turret with slit window and offset beneath trefoiled vents and ashlar capping. Returns of porch have coped gables as has right end of schoolroom. Right return of schoolroom has window of 5 trefoiled lights. Adjoining buildings to rear of both house and schoolroom, that to left of house and those masking front-right of schoolroom are not of special interest. Built as St. Edward's Primary School later becoming part of a convent. N. Pevsner,B,O,E., 1967 edition.
Listing NGR: SE4268244201
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 622
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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