Description

LEEDS

SE2933NE GREAT GEORGE STREET
714-1/75/181 (South side)
10/09/93 No.2
Thoresby Building with attached
railings and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
ROSSINGTON STREET
(South side)
Thoresby Building, City of Leeds
School with attached railings)

GV II

Formerly known as: Thoresby High School GREAT GEORGE STREET.
Pupil teachers' college, later school, now offices, with yard
walls, railings and gates. Dated 1900. By Walter Samuel
Braithwaite. For Leeds School Board. Converted 1994-5 by Leeds
Design Consultancy. Brick, stone dressings, slate roof.
4 storeys, the principal facade on the E side of 5 uneven
bays, the facades to Rossington Street and Great George Street
each of 3 bays with 3, 6 and 3 windows. Classical style.
Rossington Street facade has Corinthian pilasters and a deep
cornice below top storey which has 5-light Diocletian windows
and carved gables with 'AD' and '1900' in oval plaques.
Similar facade to Great George Street, but stone carved
detailing to gables. East front has entrances with stone
surrounds, Diocletian windows and carved gables to bays 1 and
5, projecting square-section turrets with Ionic pilasters,
louvred ventilators, modillion cornice and ogee roofs to bays
2 and 4.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings and double gates
with pointed finials to Rossington Street, with low brick wall
and square-section piers with segmental pedimented capstones,
linked to the playground boundary at W end; similar shorter
length with gate piers and gates at S side of Yard.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Pupil Teachers' College was opened in
1901 for 600 students. 10 ground-floor classrooms held 35-42
students each; on the 1st floor 10 classrooms opened off a
balcony extending round 3 sides of the central hall; there
were 8 art rooms on the upper floors and the basement housed 4
manual workshops and 2 cookery kitchens. In 1909 the girls
from the Central Higher Grade School (now City of Leeds
School) were moved to this building and it became the Thoresby
High School; in 1972 it was amalgamated with the City of Leeds
School (qv).

(Printed and published by Durham's Ltd: Souvenir of the Leeds
School Board, 1870-1903; Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire
Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 372).

Listing NGR: SE2995833972

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547786

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)