Rodley Primary School and attached walls
Rodley Primary School and attached walls, Town Street, Rodley
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255824
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Rodley Primary School and attached walls
- Statutory Address:
- Rodley Primary School and attached walls, Town Street, Rodley
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255824
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Rodley Primary School and attached walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rodley Primary School and attached walls, Town Street, Rodley
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:
- Rodley Primary School and attached walls, Town Street, Rodley
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 22534 36313
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 March 2023 to amend the description and reformat text to current standards.
SE2236
714-1/16/1048
LEEDS
Rodley
TOWN STREET (south west side)
Rodley Primary School and attached walls
II
Formerly known as: Rodley Board School TOWN STREET Rodley.
Board school with walls, gate piers, gate and railings. 1877, addition c1890. By Richard Adams. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, grey slate roof, cast-iron railings and gate. Gothic Revival style. Single storey; original small four bay school with gabled bay left, long projecting gabled wing on left probably slightly later. Round-arched entrance under lean-to far right; transom and mullion windows of four (stepped), two, four, two lights in original range, and five (stepped) lights to left wing. The windows have distinctive banded mullions and ogee and trefoil carved detail on the lintels; a moulded string is continued around the building at window-sill level. An added flat-roofed entrance porch in the angle between the two ranges has eight-panelled door and moulded parapet. Gable copings with trefoil finials, large square stepped stack straddles ridge to left of centre and at end, right; a ventilator on ridge of left wing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low walls with chamfered stone copings enclose playground to front, the roadside wall retains fine railings with alternate knob and trefoil finials, gate piers are monolithic, square bases, octagonal above, with frieze of trefoil panels and moulded caps with cresting; gate has lock rails and ornate scrolled infill between bars.
Richard Adams was architect to the Leeds School Board from 1873-1886 and designed about 35 schools, of which 16 remained in 1991. This example was built to serve the expanding canalside hamlet of Rodley following the construction of engineering works and mills and uses the local stone for a single mixed schoolroom.
Listing NGR: SE2253436313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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