Otley Westgate First School Eastern Block (Original School) With Playground Wall To Front And Side

ILKLEY ROAD 1. 1480 (South Side) SE 1845 & SE 1945 Otley Westgate First School: 3/255 eastern block (original school) with playground wall to front and side II GV 2. Mill school with playground wall to front and side. 1871 for Messrs Duncan (mill owners). Rock-faced stone, Welsh slate roof. In Gothic style. Single storey 9 bays, the 2 left bays projecting as gabled wing. Offset buttress. Wing: gabled porch on right has diagonal buttresses and steps up to 6-panel double door with fan-light in pointed-arched surround of 2 orders on colonnettes. On left of porch, window of 3 triangular- headed lights with colonnettes and relieving arch. Sexfoiled oculus in gable. Rest of range in rhythm a,b,a,b,a,b,a, the'a' bays each having a window of 2 segmental-arched lights with colonnette, the 'b' bays gabled and each having a pointed-arched window of 2 cusped lights with colonnette and sexfoil over. All gables have kneelers, roll-moulded coping and leafy finials. Crested ridge tiles, partly broken, and remnants of 2 ridge louvres. Rear: short wing projects on right; windows of 2 triangular-headed lights to bays 1,2,6 and 7; gabled range added to bay 4/5; between this and bay 3, eaves stack with 2 small slate louvred pointed-arched openings in base. Right return: window of 2 cusped lights with sexfoil over. Left return: 4 bays, windows as rear and separated by buttresses. Running along front of school is tall wall with chamfered coping supporting railings with decorative base band and alternately plain and moulded finials to bars; wide, intermediate, stone piers. Wall returns on left as tall wall between school and alley.

Listing NGR: SE1964845276