Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad

FORM ROOM BLOCK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 20 METRES WEST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078780
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad
Statutory Address:
FORM ROOM BLOCK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 20 METRES WEST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078780
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad
Statutory Address 1:
FORM ROOM BLOCK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 20 METRES WEST OF QUAD, LONDON 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:
FORM ROOM BLOCK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 20 METRES WEST OF QUAD, LONDON ROAD

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Hertford Heath
National Grid Reference:
TL 35677 10708

Details

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD TL 3510 (east side) Hertford Heath 14/19 Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 metres 24.1.67 west of Quad

GV II

School building. 1905-8 by John William Simpson (1858 - 1926) and Ormerod Maxwell Aynton (1874 - 1960). Grey brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof. An E-shaped block on the axis of the W front. 2 storeys with pedimented central feature entirely in stone with arched octagonal cupola over. Projecting wings 3-windows wide and 3-windows each side of 3-window centre. Groin vaulted stone carriageway with vaulted side aisles on square stone piers, leads to main entrance. Pilastered Tuscan front with central arch and lower square headed doorways at sides each with keystones and porch over. Relief inscription in frieze of entablature at 1st floor level. Sash windows in moulded surrounds over, between corner pilasters. Mutular cornice and triangular pediment with scrolled cartouche withribbons and swags. Recessed sash windows with flat gauged arches and 6/6 panes. Stone cornice continues round block with corner pilasters and stone floorband and plinth. Entrances to form rooms within vaulted aisles of passage and in courtyard between deeply projecting rear wings. Subsidence led to removal of balconies in courtyard before 1914. (Blunt (1966) 20, 28).

Listing NGR: TL3567710708

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Legacy System number:
355856
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.

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