Gymnasium and Art and Craft Studios Adjoining West of Homerton College
GYMNASIUM AND ART AND CRAFT STUDIOS ADJOINING WEST OF HOMERTON COLLEGE, HILLS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126038
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Gymnasium and Art and Craft Studios Adjoining West of Homerton College
- Statutory Address:
- GYMNASIUM AND ART AND CRAFT STUDIOS ADJOINING WEST OF HOMERTON COLLEGE, HILLS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126038
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Gymnasium and Art and Craft Studios Adjoining West of Homerton College
- Statutory Address 1:
- GYMNASIUM AND ART AND CRAFT STUDIOS ADJOINING WEST OF HOMERTON COLLEGE, HILLS ROAD
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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:
- GYMNASIUM AND ART AND CRAFT STUDIOS ADJOINING WEST OF HOMERTON COLLEGE, HILLS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4605156330
Details
HILLS ROAD
TL 45 NE
(west side)
21/10002 Gymnasium and Art & Craft Studios
adjoining west of Homerton College
- II
Gymnasium and art and craft studios added to college 1914 by H G
Ibberson. English bond red and purple brick with some stone dressings
and flint panels. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with gabled ends and
deep eaves on stone kneelers. Arts and Crafts Style. Plan: Large
gymnasium in west range with cross-wing on east end with stair tower in
north west angle and studios on first floor. Exterior: 2 storeys.
Asymmetrical south front. Main gymnasium range on left of 1 storey and
attic, 4:1 bays with brick piers between large semi-circular
'clerestory' windows over boarded panels, the broader left pier rises
above eaves, the right hand bay rises into gable with small 3-light
window. Small, but long flat roof dormer above. Set back on right (E)
gabled cross-wing with 3-bay loggia on ground floor and large stone
mullion-transom window above with smaller side lights, flint panels
between and chequerwork of flint and brick, carved panel and louvred
ventilation slit in gable above. Similar window and 4 round arch windows
on N end of cross-wing and low stair tower in right hand (NW) angle.
Large stone mullion-transom window in west gable of gymnasium with
lancet and ventilation slit above. Dated rainwater heads and leaded pane
windows. Interior: Gymnasium has some original equipment and segmental
arch 'apse'. Oak open well staircase to studios on first floor with
arched roof trusses plastered over.
Note: Attached to west end of the 1876-1891 Cavendish College, now
Homerton College, acquired by the Congregational Board of Education in
1894.
Sources: Buildings of England, Cambridgeshire p234. College History.
Listing NGR: TL4605156330
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 234
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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