Cross Green Youth Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. School, youth centre, caretaker's house.
Cross Green Youth Centre
- WRENN ID
- gilded-zinc-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School, youth centre, caretaker's house
- Address
- Cross Green Youth Centre, Otley
- OS grid reference
- SE 205 455
- Coordinates
- 53.90594, -1.68818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Green Youth Centre is a building that was originally a school, now serving as a youth centre, along with the Master's House, which is now the caretaker's house. It is dated 1844 and constructed from coursed squared stone with a stone slate roof. The building is a single-storey, six-bay, double-depth school range at the front, which is linked by later additions that are not of special interest to the Master's House at the rear right, which has a T-shaped plan and two storeys, with each wing comprising two bays.
The school range features quoins, and the two left bays have a shallow gabled projection with a central projecting gabled door surround. There are steps leading up to a studded board door with decorative iron hinges set in a chamfered Tudor-arched surround. Above the door, there is a shield embossed with the word 'BOYS' in the gable, which has concave kneelers, coping, and a pyramidal finial. Narrow windows flank the doorway, and the gable above includes a datestone in the architrave, along with corner pinnacles and coping. The remainder of the range has windows that alternate between one and two lights, each with quoined surrounds and hoodmoulds. The roof is a two-span design with concave kneelers and coping.
On the left return, there are two one-light windows on each gable, with a cross-window positioned between them at a higher level. The right return features a cross-window and a narrow slit on each gable, along with single-storey additions that are not of special interest.
The Master's House has a west front with quoins, and a cross-wing that projects on the right. There is a two-light window to the left of a studded door with decorative hinges, which is set in a quoined arched surround with a fanlight above. A narrow window is located over the door, and there are gutter brackets, concave kneelers, and ashlar coping. The left return has a two-light window on each floor, while the right return of the cross-wing has a three-light and a one-light window on the ground floor, with an inserted door on the right. On the first floor, there are two two-light windows under the gables. The range set back further to the right is not of special interest.
This building was the first Otley National School.
Local climate
Cross Green Youth Centre receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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