Former Leeds Charity School & St John's Parish Room

The building, dating from 1815-1816, was originally a Leeds charity school and later served as St John's Parish Rooms. It is constructed of ashlar with a slate roof and square leaded lights.

The building occupies a corner location on Wade Lane and Mark Lane. It has a rectangular plan and consists predominantly of a single storey, with a two-storey section at the west end, facing Wade Lane. The exterior features a plinth, stone tracery windows, a moulded cornice and parapet, a pitched slate roof, and a stone stack on the ridge west of the centre. All windows and doors are topped with hoodmoulds, including label stops.

The west elevation, now the main elevation, has three bays. The ground floor has a pointed arch doorway formerly leading to the schoolmistress’s accommodation, positioned to the left of a central square-headed tracery window with three pointed lights. To the right is another pointed arch window with two lights. The first floor has three pointed arch windows; the outer two are single-light windows flanking a central tracery window of two lights. The south return, facing Mark Lane, is of three unequal bays; the two eastern bays feature a large square-headed tracery window with three lights, and the western bay has a small square-headed single-light window. The north elevation, formerly the main school entrance, is now largely concealed by a 21st-century two-storey extension. The three eastern bays each contain a large square-headed window matching those on the south elevation (the easternmost now altered to a doorway), while the three western bays contain a flat lintel doorway and two pointed arch tracery windows with leaded lights. The east elevation is single-storey and contains a large five-light pointed arch window with intersecting tracery and square leaded lights.

Internally, a 21st-century mezzanine has been inserted into the main school room, and the former schoolmistress’s accommodation has been converted into offices.