NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1102129
Date first listed: 06-Jun-1975
Date of most recent amendment: 04-Jun-1999
Statutory Address: NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
National Grid Reference: TL 18618 28883
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TL 1828 NE QUEEN STREET
(South-east side)
834/3/334 North-western block at the
6.6.1975 British School
GV II
Former girls and infants schools. 1857-8. Red brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof. 2-storeys 3 x 12 bays in dignified classical style. First floor band; modillion brick cornice. Road elevation has open pediment with date stone and circular window in tympanium, 3 narrow round-arched windows to 1st floor having 10-pane sashes and key blocks. On ground floor, central projection with 2 stone steps up to 6 panel double door with fanlight below keyed round arch, flanking 6-pane sashes; entablature. Right return of 4:3:5 bays, centre projecting slightly and pedimented. Central doorway with bracketed cornice; end doorway on right. Windows are 16-pane sashes, with 12-pane sashes to centre, and to 1st floor of centre a 12-pane, sash flanked by 8-pane sashes.
HISTORY: Part of the school which was founded originally in 1810 by William Wiltshire, a Hitchin lawyer.
Listing NGR: TL1861828883
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 161595
Legacy System: LBS
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