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The Swarthmore Institute

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8014 / 53°48'4"N

Longitude: -1.5563 / 1°33'22"W

OS Eastings: 429317

OS Northings: 433987

OS Grid: SE293339

Mapcode National: GBR BGK.83

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.2Q45

Plus Code: 9C5WRC2V+GF

Entry Name: The Swarthmore Institute

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255600

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465822

ID on this website: 101255600

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Leeds St George

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


LEEDS

SE2933 WOODHOUSE SQUARE 714-1/35/448 (South side) 05/08/76 Nos.3, 4 AND 5 The Swarthmore Institute

II

Row of 3 houses, now offices. 1845-6, converted C20. By RW Moore, architect and builder. Red brick, painted stone dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 first-floor windows. Plinth, moulded string at first-floor sill and eaves levels. Doorways with overlights in moulded architraves with pilasters supporting entablature, cornice, blocking piece. Fenestration: sashes with margin-light glazing bars in eared architraves with recessed panels below on ground floor; a stepped moulding to architrave 1st-floor centre, plainer architrave to flanking windows. Moulded cornice and blocking course. C20 dormer windows right. Stacks forward of ridge flank central 3 bays and at each end. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 106).

Listing NGR: SE2932233989

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