Former Great Bookham Country Junior School
FORMER GREAT BOOKHAM COUNTRY JUNIOR SCHOOL, TOWNSHOTT CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028644
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Former Great Bookham Country Junior School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GREAT BOOKHAM COUNTRY JUNIOR SCHOOL, TOWNSHOTT CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028644
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Great Bookham Country Junior School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GREAT BOOKHAM COUNTRY JUNIOR SCHOOL, TOWNSHOTT CLOSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GREAT BOOKHAM COUNTRY JUNIOR SCHOOL, TOWNSHOTT CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 13414 54488
Details
GREAT BOOKHAM TOWNSHOTT CLOSE TQ 1354 NW (west side) 13/99 & 5/99 former Great Bookham Country Junior School (formerly listed 7.9.51 as Southey Hall School including outbuildings adjoining and 23.11.73 on Lower Road) II
School with master's house; conversion to library and private dwelling in progress at time of survey (1988). 1856-8, by William Butterfield (Pevsner); enlarged and altered in C20. Knapped flint with red brick bands and window surrounds, some timber-framing in gables, red tile roof. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, with the school hall on a lateral axis in the centre, and the house forming the south end. Vernacular Revival style, with steeply-pitched roofs. One and 2 storeys to almost the same height; in the centre of each facade the gable end of the hall projects slightly, has a large square transomed 8-light window with a broad rendered surround, and ornamental half-timbered gable (that on the east side incorporating diagonal braces) with wavy bargeboards. The east front of the master's house has a narrow 2-storey gabled porch in the centre, with glazed double doors at ground floor and half-timbered at 1st floor with a 2-light casement; at ground floor to the left, tall windows of 1, 1, and 2 lights with depressed triangular heads; attached to and slightly overlapping the right-hand side of the porch an added 1st-floor bathroom under a carried-down roof (and supported by brick piers at ground floor); and a steeply-pitched roof hipped at the south end, with 2 tall chimneys astride the ridge. Large additions in similar style cover the school range on this side. On the west side the school range north of the hall has inter alia a tall window rising into a hipped dormer, and some segmental-headed windows, all these with small diamond-lattice glazing, and the master's house has a narrow gabled bay breaking the eaves, with casements of 3 lights at ground floor and 2 lights above, and a timber-framed gable, to the right of this a 1-light window and a 4-pane sash at ground floor and 2-fight casement in a gabled half-dormer above. Interior not inspected. N Pevsner, BOE, PLL.
Listing NGR: TQ1341454488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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