Tower Court is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1990. School, office. 3 related planning applications.
Tower Court
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-tallow-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1990
- Type
- School, office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LEEDS
SE2733 ARMLEY ROAD 714-1/33/910 (North side) 16/08/90 Tower Court (Formerly Listed as: ARMLEY ROAD, Armley (North side) Armley Primary School)
II
Board school, now offices. 1878. Possibly by Richard Adams, architect to the Leeds School Board, 1873-83. Red brick, stone details to front, slate roof, ashlar blocking course, gable copings, 2 tall stacks to rear of central clock tower, lower end stacks and ball finials; ashlar quoins, rusticated to ground floor. 2 storeys, 13 bays, the outer pedimented entrance bays wider and slightly projecting, the central entrance bay similar and having a third storey with clock and cupola. In Italianate style: 8-panel double doors in Venetian surrounds with carved stone panels indicating boys', girls' and infants' entrances, the latter reduced to a window; keyed round arches to ground floor and clock tower third-floor windows, cross windows to first floor, oculi to pediments and left and right returns of clock tower. Extensive use of stone includes plinth, short attached columns flanking entrances, pilasters between windows, those to upper floor having Corinthian capitals, architraves, moulded first-floor and eaves bands, carved surround to clock face. Left and right returns of 3 bays, the pilasters in brick. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE2749433733
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