Denes High School
DENES HIGH SCHOOL, YARMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207050
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Denes High School
- Statutory Address:
- DENES HIGH SCHOOL, YARMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207050
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Denes High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENES HIGH SCHOOL, YARMOUTH 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.
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:
- DENES HIGH SCHOOL, YARMOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowestoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 54588 94592
Details
LOWESTOFT
TM59SW YARMOUTH ROAD 914-1/3/87 (South West side) Denes High School
II
School. 1909-10 by Brown & Kerr. Queen Anne style with Baroque influences. Red brick with stone dressings and machine tile roofs. North-east front of 2 storeys arranged as a central block with projecting wings enclosing an open courtyard. Right and left of the wings are 7-bay classroom blocks of 2 storeys and dormer attic. Main block of 7 bays. Screen to ground floor lit through 2 casements right and left of the late C20 central door. Behind the screen shows the first floor of the main hall: large central round-headed window with multiple glazing bars set under a gable; 3 6/6 sashes either side. Hipped roof. The projecting wings have paired pilasters to the corners of the upper floor and 5 pilasters to the flanks facing into the yard. Sashes as before. Each wing has a doorway protected by a segmental hood. The schoolroom blocks have ground-floor fenestration of alternating square and larger round-headed top-hung casements. First floor is similar except that the round-headed windows are developed into through-eaves dormers. INTERIOR. Plain. The main hall rises through both storeys. Iron balustrade to gallery.
Listing NGR: TM5458894592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391371
- 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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