HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
List entry Number: 1101605
Location
HOCKERILL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, DUNMOW ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Bishop's Stortford
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 11-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 160905
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List entry Description
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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
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 103
National Grid Reference: TL 49584 21391
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