That Part Of Pudsey Grangefield School Which Formed The Original Grammar School

This building forms part of Pudsey Grangefield School and represents the original grammar school. It was constructed in 1910-11 by Jowett and Kendall and opened in January 1911. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Westmorland green-slate roof, and is designed in a Vernacular Revival style with Classical detailing. It is arranged in a U-shape with projecting rear wings. The two-storey structure incorporates a basement and attics.

The symmetrical façade features fifteen bays, with towers to the outer bays which front the wings. The central three bays project slightly and are accentuated by quoin pilasters and a gabled parapet. A round-headed doorway, with a chamfered surround, keystone, and fanlight, is set within a Roman Ionic porch featuring an open pedimented gable and a blocking course. Above the doorway is a three-light mullioned-and-transomed window beneath a deep moulded hoodmould carried on pilaster strips. The gable apex displays an achievement of arms. The outer bays are similarly treated, with corner pilaster buttresses, simpler doorways with pilasters and consoles supporting open triangular pediments, and two three-light mullioned-and-transomed windows; the attic window has a segmental arch and curved hoodmould. Stepped parapets crown the square towers, which are surmounted by lead domes with cornices, giant corner brackets, and glazed sides. The remaining bays incorporate chamfered cross-windows with dripmoulds to the ground floor. Alternate bays are punctuated by gabled dormers, and one bay features a taller window with an additional transom, flanked by a pilaster strip on a corbel. An eaves cornice and parapet complete the façade. The hipped roof incorporates two ridge stacks. The returns on the left and right sides, each eight bays wide, have three-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, with additional three-light windows above. Bays 2, 5, and 8 rise higher and are topped with gabled dormers.