NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL

NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102129
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:: NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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Date:: 2005-03-16
Reference:: IOE01/11157/09
Rights:: © Mr Peter Warwick. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102129
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH WESTERN BLOCK AT THE BRITISH SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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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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)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 18618 28883

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

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Legacy System number:: 161595
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.