Dean's Yard
DEAN'S YARD, 18, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066406
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Dean's Yard
- Statutory Address:
- DEAN'S YARD, 18, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066406
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Dean's Yard
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEAN'S YARD, 18, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1
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:
- DEAN'S YARD, 18, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30014 79375
Details
TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 101/12 (ABBEY PRECINT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) 24.2.58 No. 18 Dean's Yard
G.V. I
School house with archway through to Little Dean's Yard. Later C.14 origin, part of the west range of the Abbey buildings and originally Bailiff's Guest House, taken over by the Grammar School in 1461 with subsequent alterations and much rebuilding in 1886 probably by T.G. Jackson(?). Stone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Tudor-Gothicised in 1886. 3 storeys. 8 windows wide, the left hand entrance "tower" bay broader and taller. Late C.14 archway to left with tierceron vault leads through to Little Dean's Yard; to its right a pointed arched doorway with drip mould altered as 2-light window. 2 and 3-light mullioned casement windows with cusped heads to lights. The "tower" has 1st floor oriel with pierced-work parapet. The elevation is finished off with crenellated parapet, the taller section of the "tower" with a corner polygonal turret. Similar features to rear elevation to Little Dean's Yard.
R.C.H.M. Westminster School; L.E. Tanner.
Listing NGR: TQ3001479375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of London I Westminster Abbey, (1924)
Tanner, LE, Westminster School, ()
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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