Priestley Hall Leeds Metropolitan University

Priestley Hall is a hall of residence built in 1911 by G.W. Atkinson for Leeds Metropolitan University. It features red brick construction with ashlar details and a slate hipped roof. The building is three storeys high and has five unequal bays, arranged with windows in a pattern of 3, 5, 1, 5, and 3. Designed in a 'Wrennaissance' Revival style, it is one of seven halls located to the south of the main building, James Graham Hall, and faces east.

The hall has an ashlar plinth, with the central and outer bays projecting forward. The centre of the outer bays projects again, and all these bays exhibit brick rustication and pediments. The second and fourth bays on the ground floor also project slightly. The central entrance features four-panel double doors adorned with carved swags and a traceried overlight, set deeply within a surround of paired pilasters that includes a triglyph frieze, modillion cornice, and blocking course. The windows throughout are small-pane sashes, and there are large double keystones, along with a carved plaque and swags on the architrave above the first-floor centre. The building is topped with a deep modillion cornice and tall brick ridge stacks that also have a modillion cornice. The interior has not been inspected.