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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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1126038
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-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-Sep-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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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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 47928
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 234

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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.