Akeley Wood School
AKELEY WOOD SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214716
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Akeley Wood School
- Statutory Address:
- AKELEY WOOD SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214716
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Akeley Wood School
- Statutory Address 1:
- AKELEY WOOD SCHOOL
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:
- AKELEY WOOD SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Akeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69040 37485
Details
SP 63 NE AKELEY AKELEY WOOD
2/23 Akeley Wood School
21/6/72
GV II
Former country house, now school. 1860's by G. Devey for Charles Pilgrim. Extended 1911-12 by Sir Ernest George for Captain Robert K. Price. Adapted for use as school 1946 by Lionel Brett. Plinth and some ground floor walls of ironstone, half-timbered above with whitewashed roughcast infill. Tiled roof, bargeboards with finials and carved brackets to base. Ironstone chimney stacks with square shafts set diagonally. Original L-plan Tudor "cottage" with main wing facing S., service wing and porch facing E. 1911 additions in similar style comprise: block at S.E. corner with billiard room to ground floor and projection for passage in angle with E. front; chauffeur's accommodation at N. end of service wing; new dining room and service wing adjoining N.W. corner of main block, and water tower in courtyard. Two storeys and attics. Irregular facades with gabled projections and small gables over first floor windows. Gable ends have elaborate timber patterning remainder close studded. Some sections of first floor are jettied. Mullion windows, some transomed, shallow oriels on carved brackets to first floor, some canted bay windows to ground floor. E. front has gabled porch with L-plan passage to front door: timber arcade with segmental arches, four centred arch to porch has carved foliage in spandrels and key block with initials 'AI'. S. and W. fronts originally had lean-to verandahs. Interior: wooden ribs to ceilings, moulded and carved doorcases, Gothick panelling in hall, staircase with square balusters renewed 1912.
Listing NGR: SP6904037485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399621
- 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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