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Latitude: 53.8015 / 53°48'5"N
Longitude: -1.5462 / 1°32'46"W
OS Eastings: 429982
OS Northings: 434010
OS Grid: SE299340
Mapcode National: GBR BJK.F1
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6QY1
Plus Code: 9C5WRF23+JG
Entry Name: Leeds College of Art and Design
Listing Date: 24 October 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256169
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465200
ID on this website: 101256169
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2
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 City
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: School building
LEEDS
SE2934SE ROSSINGTON STREET
714-1/74/355 (North side)
24/10/95 Leeds College of Art and Design
GV II
School, now college of art. Dated 1888. Red brick, Flemish
bond, stone door and window surrounds and bands at floor
levels, terracotta details, slate roof. 2 and a half storeys
over a basement, the ground-floor raised. 9 bays on a steeply
sloping site.
The centre bay breaks forward slightly and has central double
panelled doors with fanlight over, Classical surround with
pilasters on corniced bases, entablature, pediment; wreaths
and foliage in spandrels, date and laurel wreath in tympanum,
acroteria. Fenestration: square-headed windows to basement,
with small console brackets in the reveals, architraves to
ground and 1st floors, round arches to 1st-floor centre and
left, lunettes above the windows to right of centre and on
right return, shallow brick pilasters between; 2-light attic
windows. Terracotta panels below the main windows, and in
spandrels of 1st floor right.
INTERIOR: doors open into a stairway to the raised ground
floor and the 1st-floor right fenestration suggests a
principal lecture room.
Originally Leeds Boys' Modern School, part of the important
group of late C19-early C20 schools built close to the
Institute in Cookridge Street (qv).
(Ordnance Survey Map of Leeds: 1891-).
Listing NGR: SE2998234010
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