Leeds College of Art and Design
LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, ROSSINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256169
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Leeds College of Art and Design
- Statutory Address:
- LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, ROSSINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256169
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Leeds College of Art and Design
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, ROSSINGTON STREET
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:
- LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, ROSSINGTON STREET
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 29982 34010
Details
LEEDS
SE2934SE ROSSINGTON STREET 714-1/74/355 (North side) 24/10/95 Leeds College of Art and Design
GV II
School, now college of art. Dated 1888. Red brick, Flemish bond, stone door and window surrounds and bands at floor levels, terracotta details, slate roof. 2 and a half storeys over a basement, the ground-floor raised. 9 bays on a steeply sloping site. The centre bay breaks forward slightly and has central double panelled doors with fanlight over, Classical surround with pilasters on corniced bases, entablature, pediment; wreaths and foliage in spandrels, date and laurel wreath in tympanum, acroteria. Fenestration: square-headed windows to basement, with small console brackets in the reveals, architraves to ground and 1st floors, round arches to 1st-floor centre and left, lunettes above the windows to right of centre and on right return, shallow brick pilasters between; 2-light attic windows. Terracotta panels below the main windows, and in spandrels of 1st floor right. INTERIOR: doors open into a stairway to the raised ground floor and the 1st-floor right fenestration suggests a principal lecture room. Originally Leeds Boys' Modern School, part of the important group of late C19-early C20 schools built close to the Institute in Cookridge Street (qv). (Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1891-).
Listing NGR: SE2998234010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465200
- 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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