FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL

FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL, 15, TENTELOW LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1079381
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1976
List Entry Name:: FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL, 15, TENTELOW LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1079381
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1976
List Entry Name:: FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL, 15, TENTELOW LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER NORWOOD FREE SCHOOL, 15, TENTELOW LANE

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Ealing (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 13540 78671

Details

In the entry for: TENTELOW LANE TQ 17 NW 4/25 (North West Side) 29.9.76 Norwood Green No.15 GV (Former Norwood Free School)

The grade shall be upgraded to grade II* (star) and the description shall be amended to read:

"A Free School erected by E B 1767" inscribed in stone plaques at first storey above door. Two storeys. Three bays with central entranced door. Brown brick with tile roof. Casement windows to ground storey, semi-circular heads. Casement windows to first storey segmental heads. Doorway has semi-circular head with fanlight and keystone. One bay wing right with lean-to roof. Inside, ground floor fireplace has brick chimney breast with plastered upper section painted with scene, possibly depicting the Three Ages of Man, having representations of a boy holding the hand of a young man in clerical-type dress, and an old man seated between Gothic piers. This painting, probably for a schoolroom overmantel decoration, is a rare piece of such decoration, and possibly unique. Accordingly, the building is graded at II*.

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TENTELOW LANE 1. 5010 (north-west side) Norwood Green No 15 (former Norwood Free School) TQ 17 NW 4/25 29.9.76 II GV 2. "A Free School erected by E B 1767" inscribed in stone plaques at first storey above door. Two storeys. Three bays with central entranced door. Brown brick with tile roof. Casement windows to ground storey, semi-circular heads. Casement windows to first storey segmental heads. Doorway has semi-circular head with fanlight and keystone. One bay wing right with lean-to roof.

Listing NGR: TQ1354078671

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Legacy System number:: 201046
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.