De Bohun School

Description

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

The following building shall be added:-

GREEN ROAD TQ 29 NE (north side) 790-/19/10009 De Bohun School

GV II

School. 1936 by W T Curtis and H W Burchett of the Middlesex County Council's Architects' Department. Red diaper brick with concrete roofs, floors and stairs. Tower with entrance, staircase and panopticon-style summit staffroom; alongside it are offices and an assembly hall, from which latter project two wings each of two storeys and eight classrooms with a south-facing aspect and a corridor to the rear. All windows are metal casements, those to the upper office storeys and all the classrooms in continuous horizontal bands with some cement render infil, with projecting first-floor cill bands and deep projecting eaves cornices. Tall staircase window with margin-light glazing and set-back brickwork in tower over double-doored entrance with flat canopy.

Source: Architectural Design and Construction, January 1937.

Listing NGR: TQ2872895495

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0168 IOE Records taken by Mark Berry; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Mark Berry. Source: Historic England Archive

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