Boundary wall to St Johns School and Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Boundary wall.
Boundary wall to St Johns School and Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- late-chimney-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Boundary wall to St Johns School and Almshouses, Wetherby Road, LS8 2LE
- OS grid reference
- SE 337 371
- Coordinates
- 53.82963, -1.48917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall to St John's School and Almshouses, built around 1830, is likely designed by Thomas Taylor. Constructed from coursed squared gritstone, the wall features wrought-iron gates and stands between approximately 1 meter and 2 meters high, with an overall length of about 150 meters and a moulded coping.
This wall encloses the west and south sides of the property. There is a narrow pedestrian gate opposite the entrance to St John's School, which has turned walling and two pairs of gate piers with shallow pointed capstones flanking the steps. At the west end, there is an inner and outer pair of gate piers at the entrance to the church precinct, featuring moulded plinths, recessed panelled sides, and steeply gabled capstones.
On the west side of the almshouses, the curving wall includes a narrow and low pedestrian gateway with plain square jambs and a low wrought-iron gate topped with knob finials. The wall concludes at the former vicarage driveway, St John's House, with a square pier that has panelled sides and moulding, topped with a pyramid capstone.
Local climate
Boundary wall to St Johns School and Almshouses receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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