ALDRO SCHOOL

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: II

List Entry Number: 1029521

Date first listed: 21-May-1985

Statutory Address: ALDRO SCHOOL, LOMBARD STREET

Location

Statutory Address: ALDRO SCHOOL, LOMBARD STREET

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

National Grid Reference: SU 93375 45453

Summary

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

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SU 94 NW 2/114

SHACKLEFORD CP LOMBARD STREET Aldro School

(Formerly listed as the The Stables,Aldro School)

GV II

House, now school. 1894-1896 incorporating part of C18 house to left, porch added in 1906. By Henry Tanner Jnr for Sir Edgar Horne. Coursed Bargate stone to left with red brick above, stone dressings and rendered gable. Galleted sandstone with brick dressings to left, plain tiled roofs of varying heights, hipped to ends. L-shaped plan with wing projecting to front left, cobbled courtyard in re-entrant angle.

Left range: C18. Two storeys with plat band over ground floor and moulded wooden eaves board with corbelled ridge stack to left, massive ribbed Norman Shaw style stack to right at junction with main house. Sash fenestration with four glazing bar sash windows to first floor under gauged brick cambered heads. Three taller windows below. Small part glazed doors to ground floor right in re-entrant angle. Lower hipped roof wing to right angles at left end.

Main house: massive gable, jettied on moulded bressumer, with four brackets, two to ends and one either side of centre. Three louvred "breathers" under bracketed flat hoods to gable apex with three casement windows below under similar hoods and two leaded shallow angle bay wood framed casements on first floor flanking one 2-light casement to centre. Projecting ground floor with central break containing three leaded mullioned and transomed windows. Doric columned two bay arcade either side with keystones supporting entablature, blocked to left. One bay return to right end. End stack to right with angle bay attached to plinth, linking to right hand range set back. Plinth with coved eaves course and flat roof and flat roofed multi-light dormers. Three casement windows on first floor, 3 windows below. Panelled doors in left side of ground floor to centre.

Rear: three large dormers with heavy gables, jettied on braces. Angle bay to right end. Tall staircase window and stone mullioned oriel to centre. Tudor style wing to left.

Interior: considerable amounts of panelling visible, C18 and part C20 staircase with barley-sugar balusters and scrolled tread ends - taken from a house in Chiswick. Baroque fireplace surround and C19 plaster panelled ceiling to ground floor room on left.

Gardens originally laid out by Gertrude Jekyll.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) page 451.

Listing NGR: SU9337545453

Legacy

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

Legacy System number: 288371

Legacy System: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 451

Legal

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