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Latitude: 53.781 / 53°46'51"N
Longitude: -1.5531 / 1°33'11"W
OS Eastings: 429547
OS Northings: 431721
OS Grid: SE295317
Mapcode National: GBR BGS.ZD
Mapcode Global: WHC9L.37Q8
Plus Code: 9C5WQCJW+9Q
Entry Name: Former Beeston Hill Board School
Listing Date: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255905
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465474
ID on this website: 101255905
Location: Beeston Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Beeston and Holbeck
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Holbeck
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: School building Further education college
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714-1/10/534
LEEDS
BEESTON ROAD (west side)
Hillside
Former Beeston Hill Board School
(Formerly listed as Joseph Priestley College, BEESTON ROAD, Beeston Hill)
GV
II
Formerly known as: Beeston Hill Board School BEESTON ROAD, Beeston Hill.
Former Board school. 1880. By RL Adams. Red brick, stone details, slate roof. Two storeys over basement, five bays with 1,5,3,5,1 windows. Classical style. Symmetrical facade: projecting end bays have 'BOYS' and 'GIRLS' entrances, doorway with architrave, console brackets, plaque, triangular pediment; pilastered ground floor, cornice string carried all around the building; reeded architrave to three-light first-floor window, metopes above, deep eaves cornice, pyramid roof. The central bay projects slightly, doorway now a window, in Classical surround, pilasters, three narrow first floor windows, pilasters between, cornice and segmental pediment over; ornate pedimented gable above with clock. Bay two and left return: round-arched ground-floor windows (former covered playground) have carved imposts and keystones, rectangular windows to upper floor and to bay four, all in stone architraves to front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A fine example of Richard Adams' two storey schools designed in a Classical style. He was probably influenced by the style used by George Corson for the School Board Offices and Municipal Offices 1878-84 (see also Armley Road School). By 1903 the school had 1,313 scholars in two departments, mixed and infants; a rear wing was added before 1908.
Listing NGR: SE2954731721
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