Aldbury School (Hertfordshire County Council) School House

ALDBURY SCHOOL (HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL), STOCKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078052
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Aldbury School (Hertfordshire County Council) School House
Statutory Address:
ALDBURY SCHOOL (HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL), STOCKS ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078052
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Aldbury School (Hertfordshire County Council) School House
Statutory Address 1:
ALDBURY SCHOOL (HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL), STOCKS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
SCHOOL HOUSE, STOCKS ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ALDBURY SCHOOL (HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL), STOCKS ROAD
Statutory Address:
SCHOOL HOUSE, STOCKS ROAD

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Aldbury
National Grid Reference:
SP 96390 12506

Details

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 9612 (West side) 12/14 Aldbury School - (Herts County Council) and School House GV II Village School and attached School House. 1856 for Lord Brownlow, N part and house 1878. Plum brick, house buff brick with red dressings, steep red tiled roofs. A long, tall single-storey village school lying N-S set back behind Chantry Cottages and having a small gabled SE porch and a large canted bay window on S gable forming a picturesque group with the E end of the parish church. Cast iron lattice casement windows painted white, with margin lights to E gable of porch with terracotta dated plaque in gable with coronated 'B' for Brownlow. Moulded labels to 3 depressed arched windows and 2-centred pointed doorways. High sidewall chimneys. 1878 matching N extension has stepped 3-light gabled window, a large chimney, and decorative hinges to pointed arched door. 2-storeys, T-shaped house with lean-to porch in angle, red brick floor band and plinth offset, panelled door and 3-light casement windows with cambered arches. Chamfered heavy timber roof trusses exposed but interior ceiled at collar level. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SP9639012506

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Legacy System number:
355650
Legacy System:
LBS

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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