EDGE GROVE SCHOOL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1103617
Date first listed: 12-Aug-1985
Statutory Address: EDGE GROVE SCHOOL, HIGH CROSS
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Location
Statutory Address: EDGE GROVE SCHOOL, HIGH CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish: Aldenham
National Grid Reference: TQ 14452 98894
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TQ 19 NW ALDENHAM HIGH CROSS
(West side)
Aldenham
6/30 Edge Grove School
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- II
Former large house, now school. Early to mid C18 for J.Skey. Extended
and altered c.1800, mid C19 and c.1910. Red brick, roughcast. Slate
hipped roof. 3 storeys, originally 5 windows. Ground floor extended
forward: glazed tetrastyle Ionic porch with flanking sashes in reveals.
First floor sashes with blind boxes, that to centre with Ionic pilaster
jambs. Smaller 2nd floor windows. Giant pilasters at return angles.
Modillion bracketed deep boxed eaves. End stacks. c.1800 3 bay single
storey wings added, raised to 2 storeys c.1910: projecting forward,
sprocketed eaves, rectangular bay to right. Left return: first floor
weatherboarding with timber balustrades and fluted pilasters. To rear:
mid C19 full height canted bay, simple doorcase, first floor
balconettes. c.1910 1 and 2 storey additions to rear, hipped and gabled
roofs, ornamental bargeboard. Interior: largely remodelled c.1910.
Ionic entrance hall to top-lit staircase hall, wrought iron balusters to
open well stair, octagonal drum. Panelled front rooms and first floor
ballroom. 1 storey link to right to C20 buildings not of special
interest. (VCH 1923: Pevsner 1977: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TQ1445298894
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 164077
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1923)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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