Hillcrest Primary School And Attached Boundary Walls Railings And Gates

LEEDS

SE33NW COWPER STREET, Sheepscar 714-1/7/1105 (North side) Hillcrest Primary School and attached boundary walls, railings and gates

GV II

School with railings and gate piers. 1906. Red brick, ashlar details, slate roofs. Arts and Crafts Classical style. Two buildings, 2- and 3-storey south block of 3 bays with pedimented outer bays and corner turrets with shallow domed roofs; single-storey north block also with gabled end bays. S building: Classical motifs include ashlar corner pilasters, Ionic columns to entrances, half-columns between windows on upper storey, deep modillion eaves cornices, moulded pediments. Carved stone plaques on corner bays, over entrances and in pediments have scrolled shields and keyed arches, cherubs with 'LCC' and boys', girls' entrances indicated. The main entrance, to Cowper Street, has projecting end bays, possibly later and with Dutch-style gables, central segmental pediment; screen wall and elaborate gateway with half-columns, cornice and ball finials. North building, probably Infants' School, has gabled end bays and segmental pediments over tall windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall on W and S sides of S building, with railings and gate piers with gates: low brick wall, pointed rods, ramped top rail, square piers with ball finials, the main gateway has ashlar flat arch, tumbled-in brickwork, segmental pediment. Built as Cowper Street Schools, for Leeds City Council, the report on its opening in 1906 states that it was divided into 3 departments and had 1,520 pupils, with manual and cookery departments.

Listing NGR: SE3127135486