Elmbridge School

ELMBRIDGE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1111322
Date first listed:
29-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Elmbridge School
Statutory Address:
ELMBRIDGE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1111322
Date first listed:
29-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Elmbridge School
Statutory Address 1:
ELMBRIDGE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ELMBRIDGE SCHOOL, ONGAR ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Fyfield
National Grid Reference:
TL 56264 06246

Details

TL 50 NE FYFIELD ONGAR ROAD 5/63 Elmbridge School GV II

School. Built 1884, by West Ham education authorities for persistent truants. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. 3, 2 and 1 storey. Square courtyard plan. South-east front is 5 bays in width, with extra bays set back on either side, which are both of 1 storey and attics. Bays 2 and 3 have tall Dutch gables with stone trim and finials, both side bays have similar gables. The centre range has fully hipped roof, clay tiled with crested ridge bonnets and a parapet, both end bays are hipped. 6 chimneys visible from South east, all red brick, with pilastered shafts. 14 window range, at first floor, of vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars, under segmental and gauged brick arches. Red brick first floor band, moulded of 6 courses. Ground storey has 2 doors, both with pedimented brick surrounds, with circular windows in each pediment. Both end bays have semi-hexagonal bay windows with 3 vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars, to each, and low pitched leaded roofs. Centre block has 8 window range, vertical sliding sashes, set in pairs. Red terra-cotta date tablet in left hand pediment. Central main roof has one dormer beneath a leaded clock turret, surmounted by a leaded cupola and wind vane.

Listing NGR: TL5626406246

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
118369
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.

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