Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates

Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates, Lower Wortley Road, Lower Wortley, Leeds, LS12 4PX

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375112
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates
Statutory Address:
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates, Lower Wortley Road, Lower Wortley, Leeds, LS12 4PX
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375112
Date first listed:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates
Statutory Address 1:
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates, Lower Wortley Road, Lower Wortley, Leeds, LS12 4PX

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates, Lower Wortley Road, Lower Wortley, Leeds, LS12 4PX

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:
SE2657931992

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 June 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE23SE
714-1/10/951

LEEDS
Lower Wortley
LOWER WORTLEY ROAD (south side)
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates

(Former Lower Wortley Primary School and attached railings and gates, previously listed as Lower Wortley Primary School and attached railings and gates, LOWER WORTLEY ROAD)

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II

Former board school with attached railings and gate piers with gates. 1876. By Richard Adams. For the Leeds School Board. Gothic Revival style. Red brick, stone details, slate roof. Three bays, two bays deep, on a steeply sloping site: single storey to front, two storeys to parallel-roofed rear block. Central hall plan. Central bay breaks forward, gabled, three-light transom and mullion window, cusped lancet flanked by quatrefoils above, under hoodmould, gable coping and carved kneelers. Flanking bays have entrances with mullioned overlights, cross-windows. Gable copings, large ridge stack left, stack forward of ridge centre.

Rear: the two storey block was probably added c1885 when the large block to the west was built; it has arcaded ground floor (former covered playground), buttresses, three-light mullion and transom windows.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE2657931992

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
465992
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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