The Swarthmore Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Row of houses, offices. 2 related planning applications.
The Swarthmore Institute
- WRENN ID
- dusted-pinnacle-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Row of houses, offices
- Address
- The Swarthmore Institute, 3, 4 and 5, Woodhouse Square, LS3 1AD
- OS grid reference
- SE 293 339
- Coordinates
- 53.80138, -1.55636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Swarthmore Institute is a row of three houses, now used as offices, built between 1845 and 1846 by architect and builder R.W. Moore. The buildings are constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and feature a slate roof. They are two storeys high and have seven first-floor windows. The design includes a plinth and a moulded string course at the first-floor sill and eaves levels. The doorways are adorned with overlights and set within moulded architraves, supported by pilasters that hold up an entablature with a cornice and blocking piece. The windows are sashes with margin-light glazing bars, framed in eared architraves with recessed panels below on the ground floor. The first-floor centre window has a stepped moulding to its architrave, while the flanking windows have plainer architraves. A moulded cornice and blocking course run along the top, and there are 20th-century dormer windows on the right. Chimney stacks are positioned forward of the ridge, flanking the central three bays and at each end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Swarthmore Institute 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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