Thoresby Building With Attached Railings and Gates
THORESBY BUILDING WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 2, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256255
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Thoresby Building With Attached Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- THORESBY BUILDING WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 2, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256255
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Thoresby Building With Attached Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORESBY BUILDING WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 2, GREAT GEORGE 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:
- THORESBY BUILDING WITH ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 2, GREAT GEORGE 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 29958 33972
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET 714-1/75/181 (South side) 10/09/93 No.2 Thoresby Building with attached railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: ROSSINGTON STREET (South side) Thoresby Building, City of Leeds School with attached railings)
GV II
Formerly known as: Thoresby High School GREAT GEORGE STREET. Pupil teachers' college, later school, now offices, with yard walls, railings and gates. Dated 1900. By Walter Samuel Braithwaite. For Leeds School Board. Converted 1994-5 by Leeds Design Consultancy. Brick, stone dressings, slate roof. 4 storeys, the principal facade on the E side of 5 uneven bays, the facades to Rossington Street and Great George Street each of 3 bays with 3, 6 and 3 windows. Classical style. Rossington Street facade has Corinthian pilasters and a deep cornice below top storey which has 5-light Diocletian windows and carved gables with 'AD' and '1900' in oval plaques. Similar facade to Great George Street, but stone carved detailing to gables. East front has entrances with stone surrounds, Diocletian windows and carved gables to bays 1 and 5, projecting square-section turrets with Ionic pilasters, louvred ventilators, modillion cornice and ogee roofs to bays 2 and 4. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings and double gates with pointed finials to Rossington Street, with low brick wall and square-section piers with segmental pedimented capstones, linked to the playground boundary at W end; similar shorter length with gate piers and gates at S side of Yard. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Pupil Teachers' College was opened in 1901 for 600 students. 10 ground-floor classrooms held 35-42 students each; on the 1st floor 10 classrooms opened off a balcony extending round 3 sides of the central hall; there were 8 art rooms on the upper floors and the basement housed 4 manual workshops and 2 cookery kitchens. In 1909 the girls from the Central Higher Grade School (now City of Leeds School) were moved to this building and it became the Thoresby High School; in 1972 it was amalgamated with the City of Leeds School (qv).
(Printed and published by Durham's Ltd: Souvenir of the Leeds School Board, 1870-1903; Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 372).
Listing NGR: SE2995833972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 372
Souvenir of the Leeds School Board 1870-1903, ()
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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