Former Norwood Free School

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

In the entry for: TENTELOW LANE TQ 17 NW 4/25 (North West Side) 29.9.76 Norwood Green No.15 GV (Former Norwood Free School)

The grade shall be upgraded to grade II* (star) and the description shall be amended to read:

"A Free School erected by E B 1767" inscribed in stone plaques at first storey above door. Two storeys. Three bays with central entranced door. Brown brick with tile roof. Casement windows to ground storey, semi-circular heads. Casement windows to first storey segmental heads.

Doorway has semi-circular head with fanlight and keystone. One bay wing right with lean-to roof. Inside, ground floor fireplace has brick chimney breast with plastered upper section painted with scene, possibly depicting the Three Ages of Man, having representations of a boy holding the hand of a young man in clerical-type dress, and an old man seated between Gothic piers. This painting, probably for a schoolroom overmantel decoration, is a rare piece of such decoration, and possibly unique. Accordingly, the building is graded at II*.

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TENTELOW LANE 1.

5010 (north-west side) Norwood Green No 15 (former Norwood Free School) TQ 17 NW 4/25 29.9.76 II GV 2.

"A Free School erected by E B 1767" inscribed in stone plaques at first storey above door.

Two storeys. Three bays with central entranced door. Brown brick with tile roof. Casement windows to ground storey, semi-circular heads.

Casement windows to first storey segmental heads.

Doorway has semi-circular head with fanlight and keystone.

One bay wing right with lean-to roof.

Listing NGR: TQ1354078671

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0120 IOE Records taken by Quiller Barrett; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Quiller Barrett. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project