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Latitude: 53.8147 / 53°48'53"N
Longitude: -1.5265 / 1°31'35"W
OS Eastings: 431271
OS Northings: 435486
OS Grid: SE312354
Mapcode National: GBR BND.M9
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.JC9X
Plus Code: 9C5WRF7F+V9
Entry Name: Hillcrest Primary School and Attached Boundary Walls Railings and Gates
Listing Date: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375241
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466123
Also known as: Hillcrest Primary School
ID on this website: 101375241
Location: Potternewton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Chapel Allerton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: St Martin, Potternewton with All Souls, Little London
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Primary school School building Academy school
LEEDS
SE33NW COWPER STREET, Sheepscar
714-1/7/1105 (North side)
Hillcrest Primary School and
attached boundary walls, railings
and gates
GV II
School with railings and gate piers. 1906. Red brick, ashlar
details, slate roofs. Arts and Crafts Classical style. Two
buildings, 2- and 3-storey south block of 3 bays with
pedimented outer bays and corner turrets with shallow domed
roofs; single-storey north block also with gabled end bays.
S building: Classical motifs include ashlar corner pilasters,
Ionic columns to entrances, half-columns between windows on
upper storey, deep modillion eaves cornices, moulded
pediments. Carved stone plaques on corner bays, over entrances
and in pediments have scrolled shields and keyed arches,
cherubs with 'LCC' and boys', girls' entrances indicated.
The main entrance, to Cowper Street, has projecting end bays,
possibly later and with Dutch-style gables, central segmental
pediment; screen wall and elaborate gateway with half-columns,
cornice and ball finials.
North building, probably Infants' School, has gabled end bays
and segmental pediments over tall windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall on W and S sides of S
building, with railings and gate piers with gates: low brick
wall, pointed rods, ramped top rail, square piers with ball
finials, the main gateway has ashlar flat arch, tumbled-in
brickwork, segmental pediment.
Built as Cowper Street Schools, for Leeds City Council, the
report on its opening in 1906 states that it was divided into
3 departments and had 1,520 pupils, with manual and cookery
departments.
Listing NGR: SE3127135486
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