Clapton Park Lower School

CLAPTON PARK LOWER SCHOOL, OSWALD STREET E5

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1265147
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:
Clapton Park Lower School
Statutory Address:
CLAPTON PARK LOWER SCHOOL, OSWALD STREET E5
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1265147
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:
Clapton Park Lower School
Statutory Address 1:
CLAPTON PARK LOWER SCHOOL, OSWALD STREET E5

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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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:
CLAPTON PARK LOWER SCHOOL, OSWALD STREET E5

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 36001 86065

Details

OSWALD STREET E5 1. 5013 (East Side) ---------------- Clapton Park Lower School TQ 5586 14/457 TQ 3686 15/457 II

2. Late C19 board school. Large building of stock brick with dressings of red brick and tarra-cotta and high pitched tiled roofs, some hipped, some gabled. 4 sections:

a. at extreme left a projecting blank gabled wing, with chimney breast, has left return with one stepped and 2 pedimented gables; and terracotta rusticated window architraves.

b. a plain 5-storey, 3-window section only relieved by moulded strings.

c. a narrow, 2-window red brick staircase bay of 6 storeys and attic, having shaped gable ornamented with terracotta lesenes and angle turrets and medallion: "L.S.B."

d. main right building of 3 storeys, 5 windows. Bays divided by thick brick pilasters rising through cornice to fit into raised sections of battlemented parapet. Roof crowned by ogee cupola with spirelet.

Listing NGR: TQ3600186065

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
425852
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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