Edge Grove School
EDGE GROVE SCHOOL, HIGH CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103617
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Edge Grove School
- Statutory Address:
- EDGE GROVE SCHOOL, HIGH CROSS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103617
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Edge Grove School
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDGE GROVE SCHOOL, HIGH CROSS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
Details
TQ 19 NW ALDENHAM HIGH CROSS (West side) Aldenham
6/30 Edge Grove School -
- 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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