BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, APPERLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240196
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, APPERLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240196
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, APPERLEY LANE

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.

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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:: BRONTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, APPERLEY LANE

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Rawdon
National Grid Reference:: SE 19850 38706

Details

HORSFORTH APPERLEY LANE SE 13 NE 1495-/7/10004 Bronte House Preparatory School II

House, now shool. 1872, enlarged 1899 for William Akroyd, Mayor of Bradford, converted to a school 1934. C20 alterations and additions. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with raised coped gables with kneelers and finials, plus various chimney stacks. Chamfered plinth and bands. 2 storey plus attics. Gothic Revival style. Entrance front 4 bays topped with gables. Off-centre projecting single storey porch with decorated battlements, has 2 moulded round arches, that to the left with a 3-light casement, that to the right open, within a segment headed doorway with panel door and overlight and to the left a lancet window. Above a pair of sashes with pointed arched head containing a carved roundel inscribed 1872. Above again a triple sash with taller central light. To the right a single bay set back with a single plain sash, and above another single sash with pointed arched head with roundel, topped with a gable. To the left, 2 projecting gabled bays with a large 3-light square bay window, and a single sash to the left. Above 2 pairs of margin light sashes, and above again 2 triple casements with larger central light. Garden front, 3 bays. Central pair of plain sashes, with above a pair of smaller sashes, topped with a gable. To the right a shallow 3-light square bay window, with above a pair of plain sashes with central column and pointed arched head with carved roundel, topped with a gable. To the left a projecting single bay with a 3-light canted bay window, and above a pair of plain sashes with a central column and pointed arched head with carved roundel. Above in the gable a triple sash with larger central light. Beyond to the right a single storey, former billiard room, with 3 canted bay windows, each with a 3-light mullion and transom window topped with battlements. Interior. Rooms to the right of the entrance retain interior features of 1872, including deep plaster coving and fireplaces. The Dining room, staircase and present Common room retain features of 1899 including plaster ceilings, doors and doorcases. The Dining room has 3 arches; bay window arch, a buffer arch and an inglenook arch with a fine tiled fireplace with wooden surround and overmantel. The staircase and entrance hall has a coved and glazed ceiling, a Jacobean style staircase and arched screen, good quality fireplace with glazed tiles, wooden surround and overmantle. The former billiard room, has an ornate coved and decorated plaster ceiling with wooden coving, panelling and a stone inglenook arch with a good quality fireplace with wooden surround and overmantle. This house replaced in 1872, an earlier house on this site called 'Underwood House' where Charlotte Bronte was employed as a governess from March to December 1841.

Listing NGR: SE1985038706

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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.