Templewood School
TEMPLEWOOD SCHOOL, PENTLEY PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101085
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Templewood School
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLEWOOD SCHOOL, PENTLEY PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101085
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Templewood School
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLEWOOD SCHOOL, PENTLEY PARK
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:
- TEMPLEWOOD SCHOOL, PENTLEY PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23558 13885
Details
The folowing building shall be added to the list:-
WELWYN GARDEN CITY PENTLEY PARK
TL 21 SW
968/1/10000 Templewood School
II*
Primary school. 1950. Hertfordshire County Council. Steel frame with precast concrete panels, set vertically and coloured panel infill, on Hills 8' 3" system, as modified by Hertfordshire County Council. Irregular plan with hall at core with kitchen and dining rooms on a line to the east. Two further limbs of single storey classrooms, including three low classrooms for infants, to south western arm and 5 taller classrooms to north-west for juniors, all in staggered arrangement. Horizontal strip windows of 3 bays per classroom, with coloured solid panels beneath, set in metal frames; overhanging eaves cornice. Interior contains three original murals by Pat Tew, a pair outside the hall and one in the dining room.
Awarded RIBA medal.
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.
Listing NGR: TL2355813885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, (1987)
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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