WALSINGHAM SCHOOL

WALSINGHAM SCHOOL, BROOMWOOD ROAD SW11

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065557
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: WALSINGHAM SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: WALSINGHAM SCHOOL, BROOMWOOD ROAD SW11

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065557
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: WALSINGHAM SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: WALSINGHAM SCHOOL, BROOMWOOD ROAD SW11

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:: WALSINGHAM SCHOOL, BROOMWOOD ROAD SW11

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 27982 74495

Details

BROOMWOOD ROAD SW11 1. 5033 Walsingham School TQ 27SE 4/11 TQ 2874 13/11 II 2. Designed 1907 as the LCC Clapham Secondary School for Girls under the supervision of T J Bailey, Schools Architect. It is of 4-storeys in red brick with stone dressings and tiled roof and is of complex symmetrical form on the entrance elevation. This has a 6-bay centre enclosed by wings which are fronted with 2-storey blocks. The blocks rise into round towers having domes surmounted by open octagonal domed lanterns with needle finials. A canted porch fills the angle between the centre and each wing. It is framed by piers with clasping buttresses and has an applied segmental doorcase on corbelled columns. A prominent cornice-band separates the second floor from a high attic with elaborately glazed sashes and crowning cornice to the 4 centre bays. The main roof is finished with a complex square lantern. Canted bows with pyramidal roofs separate the entrance elevation from recessed 6-bay return elevations which have round-headed ground floor windows within radially rusticated heads. Corbelled chimney breasts set laterally on the entrance elevation rise into tall stacks.

Listing NGR: TQ2798274495

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Legacy System number:: 206998
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.