HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES

HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES, COWPER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375241
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES, COWPER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375241
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES, COWPER 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:: HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS RAILINGS AND GATES, COWPER 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 31271 35486

Details

LEEDS

SE33NW COWPER STREET, Sheepscar 714-1/7/1105 (North side) Hillcrest Primary School and attached boundary walls, railings and gates

GV II

School with railings and gate piers. 1906. Red brick, ashlar details, slate roofs. Arts and Crafts Classical style. Two buildings, 2- and 3-storey south block of 3 bays with pedimented outer bays and corner turrets with shallow domed roofs; single-storey north block also with gabled end bays. S building: Classical motifs include ashlar corner pilasters, Ionic columns to entrances, half-columns between windows on upper storey, deep modillion eaves cornices, moulded pediments. Carved stone plaques on corner bays, over entrances and in pediments have scrolled shields and keyed arches, cherubs with 'LCC' and boys', girls' entrances indicated. The main entrance, to Cowper Street, has projecting end bays, possibly later and with Dutch-style gables, central segmental pediment; screen wall and elaborate gateway with half-columns, cornice and ball finials. North building, probably Infants' School, has gabled end bays and segmental pediments over tall windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall on W and S sides of S building, with railings and gate piers with gates: low brick wall, pointed rods, ramped top rail, square piers with ball finials, the main gateway has ashlar flat arch, tumbled-in brickwork, segmental pediment. Built as Cowper Street Schools, for Leeds City Council, the report on its opening in 1906 states that it was divided into 3 departments and had 1,520 pupils, with manual and cookery departments.

Listing NGR: SE3127135486

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Legacy System number:: 466123
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.