Urban Studies Centre

Urban Studies Centre, Thornhill Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258714
Date first listed:: 27-May-1976
List Entry Name:: Urban Studies Centre
Statutory Address:: Urban Studies Centre, Thornhill Street

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Date:: 2001-04-01
Reference:: IOE01/03852/15
Rights:: © Mr John Turner. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258714
Date first listed:: 27-May-1976
List Entry Name:: Urban Studies Centre
Statutory Address 1:: Urban Studies Centre, Thornhill Street

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:: Urban Studies Centre, Thornhill Street

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 33473 20452

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards

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THORNHILL STREET (East Side) Urban Studies Centre

27.5.76.

II

Former Methodist Primary School. 1846. Inscribed and dated plaque in pediment over slightly projecting central bay. One-storey, three wide bays. Coursed ashlar, raised quoins, plinths, cornice and parapet. Sash windows with glazing bars, tripartite in centre, in architraves under console bracketed cornices. Three-bay north return has plain, sills and lintels to tripartite windows which are fixed lights with small panes. South return similar and there are further, humbler rear parts of coursed stone with fairly low pitched slated roofs. These have sash windows with glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SE3347320452

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Legacy System number:: 445552
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.