Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Community centre. 1 related planning application.
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates
- WRENN ID
- sheer-rampart-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates, Lower Wortley Road, LS12 4PX
- OS grid reference
- SE 265 319
- Coordinates
- 53.78359, -1.59811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lower Wortley Community Centre, originally the Lower Wortley Primary School, was built in 1876 by Richard Adams for the Leeds School Board. This former board school is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features red brick with stone details and a slate roof. The building has three bays and is two bays deep, situated on a steeply sloping site, making the front single storey and the rear a two-storey block with a parallel roof.
The central bay of the front elevation projects forward and has a gabled design with a three-light transom and mullion window. This window is flanked by cusped lancets and quatrefoils above, all under a hoodmould, with gable coping and carved kneelers. The flanking bays contain entrances with mullioned overlights and cross-windows. The roof features gable copings and a large ridge stack to the left, with another stack positioned forward of the ridge centre.
At the rear, the two-storey block was likely added around 1885 when a larger block to the west was constructed. This section has an arcaded ground floor, which was formerly a covered playground, along with buttresses and three-light mullion and transom windows. The interior has not been inspected. The property also includes attached railings and gate piers with gates.
Local climate
Lower Wortley Community Centre with attched railings and gates 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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