Independent School is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. School.
Independent School
- WRENN ID
- tattered-plinth-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds West and Pudsey MP: Rachel Reeves (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- Independent School, School Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 217 328
- Coordinates
- 53.7917, -1.67057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Independent School, dated 1850, is a single-storey building constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a mid-20th century concrete tile roof. The facade is symmetrical with seven bays. At the center, there is a pedimented gabled porch that includes a doorway with monolithic jambs, imposts, a fanlight, and a cornice topped with a date plaque. On either side of the porch, there are three bays featuring archivolted-arched windows with imposts and keystones. The building also has a moulded stone gutter and coped gables with end stacks. The rear of the school has similar windows.
Local climate
Independent School 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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