Old Poor House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Poor house, village meeting centre.
Old Poor House
- WRENN ID
- mired-garret-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Poor house, village meeting centre
- Address
- Old Poor House, Victoria Street, Morley
- OS grid reference
- SE 271 294
- Coordinates
- 53.76113, -1.5891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Poor House, now serving as a village meeting centre, was built in 1865. It features a rock-faced stone basement and a first floor made of red brick laid in stretcher bond, accented with an ashlar band and quoins, as well as white brick sill and impost bands. The building has a tile roof and stands two storeys tall with a three-bay gabled front.
The central doorway has interrupted jambs and an overlight, flanked by windows that have plain stone surrounds and a lintel band. On the first floor, there are stone ogee-arched windows with impost blocks and keystones, which are positioned beside an oval date plaque that reads: "TOWNSHIP OF CHURWELL THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED BY THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AD 1865."
The gable is pedimented and features a circular recess. The right-hand side of the building faces Elland Road and includes a bus shelter that has been cut into the stone basement. The front has four bays of windows, and there is a dogtooth and dentil cornice along the eaves. A lateral stack is located between the first and second bays.
Local climate
Old Poor House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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