History in Structure

West Leeds High School

A Grade II Listed Building in Armley, Leeds

We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?

Upload Photo »

Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7972 / 53°47'49"N

Longitude: -1.6044 / 1°36'15"W

OS Eastings: 426156

OS Northings: 433505

OS Grid: SE261335

Mapcode National: GBR B4L.0L

Mapcode Global: WHC9C.BT7C

Plus Code: 9C5WQ9WW+V6

Entry Name: West Leeds High School

Listing Date: 13 May 1987

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255670

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465752

ID on this website: 101255670

Location: Upper Armley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Armley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Upper Armley Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: School building Gymnasium

Find accommodation in
Leeds

Description



LEEDS

SE2633 WHINGATE, Armley
714-1/32/504 (South West side)
13/05/87 West Leeds High School
(Formerly Listed as:
WHINGATE, Armley
(South West side)
West Leeds Boys' High School)

GV II

School. 1906-1907, altered late C20. By William Broadbent.
Ashlar and red brick with ashlar dressings, graduated slate
roofs.
Double pile plan. 2 and 3 storeys with basement. Symmetrical
26-bay facade with 2-storey with basement, 3:3-bay blocks
flanking taller, 3-storey with basement, 3:2:4:2:3-bay central
block, the rhythm of the whole being A,A,B,C,D,C,B,A,A,
sections B and D breaking forward.
Rusticated ashlar basement and ground floor of central block;
sections defined by rusticated ashlar pilasters, 1st-floor
bays defined by attached ashlar Ionic columns, ashlar sill and
lintel bands; dentilled. 1st- and 2nd-floor cornices. Sections
C have portals; steps up to porches with paired Ionic capitals
supporting entablatures with dentil cornices broken by keyed
segmental arches under segmental pediments with blocking
courses. Inside porches: tessellated floors and panelled,
half-glazed double doors with side-lights and relief-carved
wooden over-panels.
Windows large, with later C20 glazing; section D has 2 triple
windows to basement, side windows narrower and 2 Venetian
windows to ground floor, these echoed by the ground-floor
windows of section C which are 2-light with segmental
overlights, all of them having the ashlar above incised and
voussoirs running into coursing. On 2nd floor of section D, 2
three-light windows under segmental-arched friezes and keyed
archivolts; over central windows of B and outer A section are
keystones rising into broken segmental pediments. Parapets to
sections A, B and D, part balustraded.
Central and outer blocks under separate hipped roofs, each
with ridge cupola having open, round arched, colonnetted
sides, leaded ogee roof and finials, that to centre is larger
and more ornate with weather vane.
Rear: plainer, rhythm echoing that of front, with round arches
over narrower section C upper windows, 6-bay section D having
2 of the upper windows rising through eaves under segmental
pediments, and dentil cornices to sections B, arching over


single upper windows set in raised brick panels. 2-tier
flat-roofed projections from section D (former observation
galleries); single-storey flat-roofed projections from bays B
(former changing rooms), altered.
Returns: 3 wide bays, echoing front, with 5 tall,
segment-arched basement windows, and single, large central
windows above, corniced on ground floor; dentil cornice rising
as central segmental pediment; parapet.
INTERIOR: glazed green tiles to walls of entrances, corridors
have wall tiling (painted over) and segmental-arched recesses
to doors and windows; reinforced concrete floors; stone dogleg
stairs with spiked and knob-finialed iron balusters; main hall
has coffered ceiling with decorative borders to panels.
William Broadbent was architect to the Leeds Education
Department. The school, which accommodated 400 boys and 400
girls, was designed according to the most up-to-date planning
principals and constructional techniques, following
Continental (particularly Swiss) examples and being the first
school in Leeds to have all the floors of reinforced concrete
(Harland pp 11-14).
(Harland, OH: A Chronicle History).

Listing NGR: SE2615633505

External Links

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.