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MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL

MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL, MORGANS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1119734
Date first listed:: 05-May-1998
List Entry Name:: MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL, MORGANS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1119734
Date first listed:: 05-May-1998
List Entry Name:: MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL, MORGANS ROAD

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:: MORGANS JUNIOR SCHOOL, MORGANS ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32552 11668

Details

TL 3211 NE HERTFORD MORGAN'S ROAD

817-1/22/20000 Morgan's Junior School

II*

School, originally for infants and juniors, now used only by juniors. 1948-9 by the Hertfordshire County Council Architect's Department, job architect Bruce Martin. Landscaping by Brenda Colvin. Prefabricated cold-rolled steel system perfected with Ernest Hinchcliffe of Hills and Co., West Bromwich on 8'3" grid, clad with glass, and steel and concrete panels. Flat concrete and felt roofs. Informal plan set around higher assembly hall, and slightly lower space shared by entrance hall and (partially screened) dining hall. All classrooms face south. Former infants wing with smaller classrooms incorporating projecting areas for sinks and paints, each with teacher's store and giving on to broad cloakroom and corridor area. Junior rooms in two sections, those for smaller children with clerestory glazing, found also in corridors. Corridors with low fixed cloakroom racks and dividers. Ceilings with exposed framing.

Morgan's Road school is a cohesively planned and well preserved example of the system of the Hertfordshire County Council system of prefabricated schools developed with Hills of West Bromwich in 1945-7. Herts CC pioneered prefabrication in schools building to meet a population explosion in the county, and to provide a more humane child-centred environment for teaching the very young. Morgan's Road is a good example from the most rewarding years of the programme in the late 1940s, when the system had been developed but before many of the young team had left for the Ministry of Education (as Johnson-Marshall did in 1948) or the London County Council. It is just a street away from the Architect's Department at County Hall, and as the closest of all the schemes to the office gained particular attention. The massing of the separate infants' and juniors' wings either side of the hall is particularly satisfying. A refinement at Morgan's Walk was to pull out part of the infants' classrooms into an independent bay, creating a separate space for play and enhancing the stepped profile of the building, which rises to the central entrance hall. Clerestories in the lower wings give further interest to the rooflines, and provide diffuse top lighting. The Building Research Station advised on the original colour schemes, which originally included red and blue external steelwork, primary colours for the classrooms, and more neutral browns and greys for the hall.

(Sources: Architects' Journal: 31 August 1950: 215-19 ; Davies RL and Weeks J: The Hertfordshire Achievement: Architectural Review: June 1952: 367-72 ; Ehrenkrantz ED and Kay JD: Flexibility through Prefabrication: Progressive Architecture: July 1957: 106-7 ; Saint A Towards a Social Architecture: London, Yale: 1987 ; Saint A: Not Methods, But a Method of Building: Hertfordshire CC: 1990)

Listing NGR: TL3255211668

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 469256
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Saint, A, Not Methods But a Method of Building, (1990)
Saint, A, Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, (1987)
'Architects Journal' in 31 August, (1950), 215-19
Davies, R L, Weeks, J, 'Architectural Review' in The Hertfordshire Achievement, (1952), 367-72
Ehrenkrantz, E D, Kay, J D, 'Progressive Architecture' in Flexibility Through Prefabrication, (1957), 106-7

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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.