FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL

FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL, UPPER WICKHAM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031526
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL, UPPER WICKHAM LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031526
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL, UPPER WICKHAM LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER FOSTERS PRIMARY SCHOOL, UPPER WICKHAM LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Bexley (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ4666676137

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/08/2012

TQ 47 NE 959/2/10010

WELLING UPPER WICKHAM LANE (east side) Former Foster's Primary School

(Formerly listed as Foster's Primary School)

II

Formerly a school with a former schoolmaster's house. Built in 1879 for Foster's Educational Trust which had been set up on another site following a bequest of William Foster in 1727 for the education of 20 poor children. Built of brown brick with red brick dressings, some pointed tiles to gables and renewed tiled roof with ridge tiles. PLAN: L-shaped building comprising school to left and former schoolmaster's house to right. EXTERIOR: School of one storey and attics with prominent octagonal tiled spire with wooden louvres and cast-iron finial. Projecting gable to left with wooden bargeboards and pendant and 2 tall windows and on return lean-to with arched doorcase. Dormer with stepped mullioned windows followed by 3 mullioned and transomed casements on ground floor. A gabled porch is followed to right by a large projecting gable with 3-tier 5-light casement. 2-storey former house to right is of 2 parallel ranges and 2 storeys with chequer-work framing with pebbledashed infill to gable. One 3-light sash to first floor, a 4-light canted bay to ground floor and gabled wooden porch with bargeboard, finial and pendant. North-east side has 4 mullioned and transomed windows and roof has courses of alternate plain and patterned tiles. Rear elevation has end projecting gables with hipped hoist and flat-roofed dormer to central section and later flat-roofed addition in matching style and materials. INTEROR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ4666676137

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Legacy System number:: 468964
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.