Woodhill School

WOODHILL SCHOOL, WOODHILL SE18

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212290
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
Woodhill School
Statutory Address:
WOODHILL SCHOOL, WOODHILL SE18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212290
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
Woodhill School
Statutory Address 1:
WOODHILL SCHOOL, WOODHILL SE18

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

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:
WOODHILL SCHOOL, WOODHILL SE18

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 42375 78697

Details

1. 4412 WOODHILL SE18 (West Side)

Woodhill School TQ 4278 19/439

II

2. Probably by E R Robson. South front main centre section, of 2 storeys and attic, 4 wide bays, has bexagonal angle towers. Multicoloured steak brick banded with red brick. Stone cornice and brick parapet. High pitched tiled roof has 4 high, gabled dormers with moulded cornices. Shouldered architraves to dormer windows. 1st floor windows in wide, 2-centred arches with stone ogee hoodmoulds rising through cornice to fleur-de-lys finials on parapet. 3-light sash windows, the centre light taller, with ornamental bars. Arcade of 6 small, blank segmental arches below each window. Stone coped string at 1st floor level. 2-light ground floor windows with panelled pilaster mullion between lights. 1-bay staircase sections, with lower roof and plain 2-light windows, abutting on either side of centre block. Beyond these, side sections of 4 lower storeys with high pitched, tiled roofs. Red brick eaves cornice in many planes. 5 windows the outer plain, the inner 4 closely set and with red brick dressings. Segmental arches in several planes over 1st and 3rd floor windows.North front of 3 storeys and attic 5 sections, the central and outer ones slightly projecting with 4 windows. The outer windows in these sections of 3 equal windows. 4 gabled dormers, the outer and central ones taller, with 3 and 2 windows respectively, the inner ones lower with 2 windows. Low 2nd floor windows with stone cill band. Segmental brick relieving arches, with stone dripmoulds and keys, to 1st floor windows which have red brick gauged arches and jambs. Stone coped 1st floor string rests on keys of gauged, flat brick arches to ground floor windows. Central, modest hexagonal broach spire, leaded above and tiled below. 2 louvred stages for bells, each surmounted by a dome, the upper dome smaller. Ball finial and vane.

Listing NGR: TQ4237578697

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Legacy System number:
396776
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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