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Thoresby Building with Attached Railings and Gates

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.8012 / 53°48'4"N

Longitude: -1.5466 / 1°32'47"W

OS Eastings: 429958

OS Northings: 433972

OS Grid: SE299339

Mapcode National: GBR BJK.B5

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6QS9

Plus Code: 9C5WRF23+F9

Entry Name: Thoresby Building with Attached Railings and Gates

Listing Date: 10 September 1993

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256255

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465105

ID on this website: 101256255

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

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LEEDS

SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET
714-1/75/181 (South side)
10/09/93 No.2
Thoresby Building with attached
railings and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
ROSSINGTON STREET
(South side)
Thoresby Building, City of Leeds
School with attached railings)

GV II

Formerly known as: Thoresby High School GREAT GEORGE STREET.
Pupil teachers' college, later school, now offices, with yard
walls, railings and gates. Dated 1900. By Walter Samuel
Braithwaite. For Leeds School Board. Converted 1994-5 by Leeds
Design Consultancy. Brick, stone dressings, slate roof.
4 storeys, the principal facade on the E side of 5 uneven
bays, the facades to Rossington Street and Great George Street
each of 3 bays with 3, 6 and 3 windows. Classical style.
Rossington Street facade has Corinthian pilasters and a deep
cornice below top storey which has 5-light Diocletian windows
and carved gables with 'AD' and '1900' in oval plaques.
Similar facade to Great George Street, but stone carved
detailing to gables. East front has entrances with stone
surrounds, Diocletian windows and carved gables to bays 1 and
5, projecting square-section turrets with Ionic pilasters,
louvred ventilators, modillion cornice and ogee roofs to bays
2 and 4.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings and double gates
with pointed finials to Rossington Street, with low brick wall
and square-section piers with segmental pedimented capstones,
linked to the playground boundary at W end; similar shorter
length with gate piers and gates at S side of Yard.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Pupil Teachers' College was opened in
1901 for 600 students. 10 ground-floor classrooms held 35-42
students each; on the 1st floor 10 classrooms opened off a
balcony extending round 3 sides of the central hall; there
were 8 art rooms on the upper floors and the basement housed 4
manual workshops and 2 cookery kitchens. In 1909 the girls
from the Central Higher Grade School (now City of Leeds
School) were moved to this building and it became the Thoresby
High School; in 1972 it was amalgamated with the City of Leeds
School (qv).


(Printed and published by Durham's Ltd: Souvenir of the Leeds
School Board, 1870-1903; Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire
Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 372).

Listing NGR: SE2995833972

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