Tower Court
TOWER COURT, ARMLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256368
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Court
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER COURT, ARMLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256368
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER COURT, ARMLEY 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:
- TOWER COURT, ARMLEY ROAD
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 27494 33733
Details
LEEDS
SE2733 ARMLEY ROAD 714-1/33/910 (North side) 16/08/90 Tower Court (Formerly Listed as: ARMLEY ROAD, Armley (North side) Armley Primary School)
II
Board school, now offices. 1878. Possibly by Richard Adams, architect to the Leeds School Board, 1873-83. Red brick, stone details to front, slate roof, ashlar blocking course, gable copings, 2 tall stacks to rear of central clock tower, lower end stacks and ball finials; ashlar quoins, rusticated to ground floor. 2 storeys, 13 bays, the outer pedimented entrance bays wider and slightly projecting, the central entrance bay similar and having a third storey with clock and cupola. In Italianate style: 8-panel double doors in Venetian surrounds with carved stone panels indicating boys', girls' and infants' entrances, the latter reduced to a window; keyed round arches to ground floor and clock tower third-floor windows, cross windows to first floor, oculi to pediments and left and right returns of clock tower. Extensive use of stone includes plinth, short attached columns flanking entrances, pilasters between windows, those to upper floor having Corinthian capitals, architraves, moulded first-floor and eaves bands, carved surround to clock face. Left and right returns of 3 bays, the pilasters in brick. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE2749433733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464988
- 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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