Singlegate School and Gatepiers
SINGLEGATE SCHOOL, SOUTH GARDENS, LONDON, SW19 2NT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249149
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Singlegate School and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- SINGLEGATE SCHOOL, SOUTH GARDENS, LONDON, SW19 2NT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249149
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Singlegate School and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- SINGLEGATE SCHOOL, SOUTH GARDENS, LONDON, SW19 2NT
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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:
- SINGLEGATE SCHOOL, SOUTH GARDENS, LONDON, SW19 2NT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Merton (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26853 70270
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/06/2017
TQ 27 SE
1329-/2/10014
COLLIERS WOOD
SOUTH GARDENS
Singlegate School and gatepiers
(Formerly listed as Singlegate School and gatepiers (including Singlegate School, South Gardens) CHRISTCHURCH ROAD)
II
School for the Mitcham School Board. Dated 1897 on stone plaque, the architect H.P Burke-Downing. Red brick with half-timbered gables and stone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs culminating in timber cupola.
Rectangular plan of tall, single-storey classrooms ranged round entrance in South Gardens, to side of which is square stair tower culminating in pyramidal roof with louvres and pinnacle. Tall, picturesque stacks. Classrooms to south and west elevations each with paired bays under high gables, that to west with Ionic order and oeil de boeuf windows, that to south with volutes and keystones. This classroom has end bay facing South Gardens with tripartite window and louvre in gable. Long range of gabled classrooms on eastern elevation. The staircase tower has stone windows with Gothic tracery; the other windows are timber top-opening casements, those under gables of huge dimension.
Stone gatepiers with raised bands and rounded tops to main entrance, the other piers to Christchurch Road of banded brick and stone with ball tops. The small mid-C20 flat roofed addition to rear is not of interest. Included as a remarkably eclectic design for a board school, by an important local architect.
Source: Cherry and Pevsner, The Buildings of England, South London, 1983, p.438.
Listing NGR: TQ2685370270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983), 438
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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