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House Immediately to South of Thornhill Lees Church of England School (Former School and Schoolmasters House)

A Grade II Listed Building in Dewsbury, Kirklees

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6777 / 53°40'39"N

Longitude: -1.6359 / 1°38'9"W

OS Eastings: 424151

OS Northings: 420195

OS Grid: SE241201

Mapcode National: GBR KT0X.MD

Mapcode Global: WHC9X.VT6H

Plus Code: 9C5WM9H7+3M

Entry Name: House Immediately to South of Thornhill Lees Church of England School (Former School and Schoolmasters House)

Listing Date: 3 July 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1300477

English Heritage Legacy ID: 340748

ID on this website: 101300477

Location: Thornhill Lees, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF12

County: Kirklees

Electoral Ward/Division: Dewsbury South

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Dewsbury

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Thornhill Lees Holy Innocents with St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


DEWSBURY CB LEES HOUSE ROAD
SE 22 SW (Thornhill Lees)

2/63
House immediately to
south of Thornhill Lees
C. of E. school (former
school & school-master's
house)

G.V. II


School and School Master's House. Circa 1858. Pitch-faced stone
with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with copings on large cut kneelers.
Two good ornamental stacks. Single storey except for the 2-storey
house. Near-symmetrical design. Cross-wing to left and right, the
former projecting. Each cross-wing contains a 3-light window with
hood which continues over stilted arched tympanum to centre light.
The tympanum has incised decoration. In each gable apex is the
Savile coat of arms and motto BE FAST. Wrought iron decorative
finial to each apex. The centre part has a projecting open porch,
to right, up 5 steps, with engaged colonnettes with foliage capitals
supporting a moulded, cusped arch. To the left is a 6-light window
with king mullion and similarly detailed to the windows of the cross-
wings. The right return is similarly treated and at the rear the
2-storey house is in the same style.


Listing NGR: SE2415120195

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