Meanwood School And School Masters House

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SE23NE GREEN ROAD, Meanwood 714-1/6/962 (East side) 30/10/89 Meanwood School and School Master's House

GV II

School and master's house. 1840. Built for Christopher Beckett Esq of Meanwood Hall, in Gothic Revival style. Ashlar with slate roofs, and ashlar coped gables. Plinth and decorated corbels. S front has central single storey 5-bay block, with 5 deeply-recessed pointed-arch windows with tracery and hoodmoulds. To the right a linking wall with a coped parapet and a single pointed-arch doorway flanked by single lancets, beyond a single-bay gable end with a large 4-light plate-tracery window in a pointed arch. To the left, set back, a 2-storey block with a pair of lancets and single lancets either side, linked by a hoodmould. Above a through-eaves dormer window. Quadrangle to rear with octagonal bell tower and plaque. Master's house, 3 bays, 2 storeys with a chamfered 1st-floor band. Central doorway with projecting porch and pointed arch door. Either side single glazing-bar sashes in chamfered surrounds with Tudor hoodmoulds. Above, 3 gabled through-eaves dormer windows with glazing bar sashes and a stone slate roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. In course of restoration and extension at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SE2820737316