Description

SE23SW
SE2233
4/149

RICHARDSHAW LANE
PUDSEY LS28
(east side)
That part of Pudsey Grangefield School which formed the original Grammar School

II

Grammar school, now comprehensive school. 1910/11 by Jowett and Kendall
(Pudsey),opened Jan. 21st 1911. Hammer-dressed sandstone, ashlar dressings,
Westmorland green-slate roof. Vernacular Revival style with Classical detailing.
U-shaped with rear wings. 2 storeys with basement and attics. Symmetrical
15-bay facade with towers to outer bays (which front wings). Central 3 bays
break forward slightly and have quoin pilasters with gabled parapet over;
round-headed doorway with chamfered surround, keystone and fanlight in Roman
Ionic porch with open pedimented gable and blocking course; 3-light segmental-
arched mullioned-and-transomed window, above, with deep moulded hoodmould
carried on pilaster strips; achievement of arms in apex of gable. Outer bays
similarly treated have corner pilaster buttresses; simpler doorways with pilasters,
consoles carrying open triangular pediment; and two 3-light mullioned-and-
transomed windows, that to attic with segmental arch and curved hoodmould;
stepped parapets to square towers surmounted by lead domes with cornices, giant
corner brackets and glazed sides. All other bays have chamfered cross-windows
with dripmoulds to ground floor. Alternate bays have gabled dormers and a
taller window with extra transom flanked by pilaster strip on corbel. Eaves
cornice and parapet. Hipped roof with 2 ridge stacks Left and right returns
of 8 bays have 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows with 3-light windows
above. Bays 2, 5 and 8 rise higher under gabled dormers.

Listing NGR: SE2225433680

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509375

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