Rothwell Infants School
ROTHWELL INFANTS SCHOOL, CARLTON SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389126
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Rothwell Infants School
- Statutory Address:
- ROTHWELL INFANTS SCHOOL, CARLTON SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389126
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Rothwell Infants School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTHWELL INFANTS SCHOOL, CARLTON SCHOOL
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:
- ROTHWELL INFANTS SCHOOL, CARLTON SCHOOL
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:
- SE3436027886
Details
SE32NW
1927/5/10001
25-JAN-01
CARLTON SCHOOL
Rothwell Infants School
II
Board school and attached school house. 1872, with minor late C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings, Welsh slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Various brick chimney stacks. Chamfered plinth. Gothic Revival style. Single storey with 2 storey house.
Main north-west front has former school master's house to left in slightly projecting gabled wing ground and first floor cill bands. Recessed Gothic-style doorway with polychromatic pointed arch and ashlar hood, to right a 3-light casement window and above, a single and a 2-light, casement windows. Small ventilator in apex of gable. Recessed centre has 6-window façade; central and right windows have large 6-pane windows and chamfered cills. Left window has 5 stone steps to former boys entrance, double plank doors with ornate iron hinges and tripartite overlight. Remaining windows have casements with glazing bar upper lights. Brick buttresses with set-offs between these openings. Right gable has large 3-light window with transoms and graduated lights and a pointed relieving arch triple. Arch has alternating brick and stone voussoirs and moulded ashlar hood. Ashlar band above inscribed BOARD SCHOOL.
South-west front has 12 window façade arranged 2, 3, 3, 4. To left to 2 cross casement, then 3 tall cross casement windows which extend through the eaves to small coped gables. Off-centre later projection has 3 small windows, then 4 further cross casement windows.
Rear schoolyard facades, to left gable-end of south-west front has large pointed arch with 3 windows and above large pointed relieving arch with brick and stone voussoirs, flanked by single similar windows. Apex of gable has 5 blind lancets.
Main classrooms have pair of gables each with large 3-light graduated windows with transoms and pointed relieving arches.
Small detached nursery wing to south has street front with tall central cross mullion window projecting through eaves to gabled dormer above, either side single 2-light windows, beyond to right another tall cross mullion window which projects into gable, to left blank wall with blind dormer above.
Northwest front has doorway to left with elaborate faience surround with segmental pediment, to right a graduated 4-light window in gable.
INTERIOR has exposed wooden roofs supported on ashlar corbels to all classrooms and hall. Most rooms retain original 6-panel doors and dado panelling. Fragments of former glazed dividing screen still survive in some classrooms.
Listing NGR: SE3436027886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486720
- 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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