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Meanwood School and School Masters House

A Grade II Listed Building in Moortown, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8313 / 53°49'52"N

Longitude: -1.5729 / 1°34'22"W

OS Eastings: 428207

OS Northings: 437316

OS Grid: SE282373

Mapcode National: GBR BB6.RC

Mapcode Global: WHC95.TY5P

Plus Code: 9C5WRCJG+GR

Entry Name: Meanwood School and School Masters House

Listing Date: 30 October 1989

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256208

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465150

ID on this website: 101256208

Location: Far Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Moortown

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Meanwood Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: Primary school Gothic Revival School building Church of England school

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Description



LEEDS

SE23NE GREEN ROAD, Meanwood
714-1/6/962 (East side)
30/10/89 Meanwood School and School Master's
House

GV II

School and master's house. 1840. Built for Christopher Beckett
Esq of Meanwood Hall, in Gothic Revival style. Ashlar with
slate roofs, and ashlar coped gables. Plinth and decorated
corbels.
S front has central single storey 5-bay block, with 5
deeply-recessed pointed-arch windows with tracery and
hoodmoulds. To the right a linking wall with a coped parapet
and a single pointed-arch doorway flanked by single lancets,
beyond a single-bay gable end with a large 4-light
plate-tracery window in a pointed arch. To the left, set back,
a 2-storey block with a pair of lancets and single lancets
either side, linked by a hoodmould. Above a through-eaves
dormer window. Quadrangle to rear with octagonal bell tower
and plaque. Master's house, 3 bays, 2 storeys with a chamfered
1st-floor band. Central doorway with projecting porch and
pointed arch door. Either side single glazing-bar sashes in
chamfered surrounds with Tudor hoodmoulds. Above, 3 gabled
through-eaves dormer windows with glazing bar sashes and a
stone slate roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
In course of restoration and extension at time of survey.


Listing NGR: SE2820737316

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