Description

KEIGHLEY LAWKHOLME CRESCENT
SE 0641 SW (North West Side)
27/312
Council Offices

II

Council Offices, former School Board Offices. 1893. Designed by James Lechingham
of Bradford. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with terracotta
ridge tiles, ashlar coved gables with a gable and 2 wall stacks. Quoins, chamfered
plinths, moulded first floor band and eaves. 2 storey over a high basement. Curved
corner site. 2, 2 light basement windows. Central 3 light cross casement in raised
and moulded ashlar surround with either side single similar 2 light windows. To the
left a doorway with overlight and hood mould and hood and beyond a similar 3 light
window plus an oval window with ornate surround. To the right a tall 4-centred
arched doorway with ashlar pilaster surround and carved frieze, above a double
overlight with panel pilaster surround, a shell hood and flanking ball finials, and
beyond a further 2 light cross casement. Above a 3 light oriel window, with round
headed central light, and 4 part overlight in moulded ashlar pilaster surround
supported on brackets, and topped by a carved frieze, with gabled pediment inscribed
'SCHOOL BOARD OFFICES' and flanking ball finials. Either side single 2 light cross
casements in raised ashlar surrounds with bracket hoods, and to the left a pair of
similar 2 light cross casements above to the right a truncated wall stack with
scroll gabled base inscribed '1893'. To the right a truncated external stack with
bracket corbel and a plain scrolled gable base, beyond a circular window with raised
keystone surround and beyond a further similar 2 light cross casement. The whole
topped by a square slate hung lantern with a pyramidal slate roof.

Listing NGR: SE0612041276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427117

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)