HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1101605
Date first listed: 11-Jul-1983
Statutory Address: HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, DUNMOW ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, DUNMOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish: Bishop's Stortford
National Grid Reference: TL 49584 21391
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
1.
5253 DUNMOW ROAD
(North Side)
Hockerrill
Residential School
TL 42 SE:6/16
II
2.
Former Church of England Elementary Schoolmistresses' residential college by Joseph
Clarke, 1852. Tudor Gothic style. Diaper patterned red brick walls with stone
dressed doors and windows. Old red tile pitched roofs with Hampton Court style brick
chimneys. Quadrangular plan, 2 storeys. West garden front, formerly entrance:
5 windows with central Tudor doorway beneath traceried, crenellated oriel retaining
original latticework. Split level roof with stone coping. Mullioned and transomed
ground floor windows and single first floor dormitory lights. It continues on south
in 1 1/2 storeys. Porch and 2 windows, then U-plan, 5 window block facing south. Gable
ends and large mullioned and transomed windows on south and west. Gabled porch on
south-west corner. Main south front, now entrance, is 7 windows; 3 on east, a 1924
addition. Modern porch. East front has central projecting single storey chapel.
1878 by J Clarke. Plain red brick, steep red tile roof. Early English style,
4 lancets to sides and triad on east gable end. West gable has ornamental tiles and
wooden belfry. Chapel interiors: open trussed rafter roof, stone sedilia, piscina and
book recess. Organ loft over west end. Interior of quadrangle. Traceried tie beam
ceiling in former assembly hall on west side. In north-east corner room is a late C19
large stone Perpendicular style fireplace. Late C19 additions on north-east of
quadrangle. Modern cloisters. Good example of mid C19 college architecture.
(Pevsner second Ed Rev (1977) 103).
Listing NGR: TL4958421391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 160905
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 103
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing