ALDRO SCHOOL

ALDRO SCHOOL, LOMBARD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029521
Date first listed:: 21-May-1985
List Entry Name:: ALDRO SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: ALDRO SCHOOL, LOMBARD STREET

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Date:: 1999-10-28
Reference:: IOE01/02168/32
Rights:: © Mr Richard Down. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1029521
Date first listed:: 21-May-1985
List Entry Name:: ALDRO SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: ALDRO SCHOOL, LOMBARD STREET

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:: ALDRO SCHOOL, LOMBARD STREET

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Guildford (District Authority)
Parish:: Shackleford
National Grid Reference:: SU 93375 45453

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/01/2013

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

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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.