Virginia Primary School

Virginia Primary School, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065296
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Virginia Primary School
Statutory Address:: Virginia Primary School, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065296
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Virginia Primary School
Statutory Address 1:: Virginia Primary School, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: Virginia Primary School, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33626 82600

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 November 2021 to correct street name in the description . TQ 3382 8/73

BOUNDARY ESTATE ARNOLD CIRCUS E2 Virginia Primary School

GV II 1899. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. Slate roof. Three storeys. Centre portion of ten paired sashes with additional top lights. Flanking wings under coped gables, each with two pairs of windows. String courses at sill heights, paired windows separated by red brick buttresses with stone caps. Rear facade to Virginia Street gabled with off centre tower under hipped roof with finial (see also Virginia Street).

The Boundary Estate is an early LCC estate of advanced design for its period. It contains a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate forms a group. See the following streets; Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2 and Virginia Street E2. .

Listing NGR: TQ3361282593

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Legacy System number:: 205730
Legacy System:: LBS

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