Former St Michael's School
St Michaels, Wolfs Row, Oxted, RH8 9QL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268299
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Michael's School
- Statutory Address:
- St Michaels, Wolfs Row, Oxted, RH8 9QL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268299
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Michael's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Michaels, Wolfs Row, Oxted, RH8 9QL
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:
- St Michaels, Wolfs Row, Oxted, RH8 9QL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Tandridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Limpsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 40523 52458
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 May 2025 to amend the name and address and description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 45 SW
303/7/10022
LIMPSFIELD
WOLFS ROW
St Michaels
Former St Michael's School
(Formerly listed as St Michael's School, WOLFS ROW)
II
Former Church Missionary Society School, later girls' school, now converted to apartments. Dated 1886 with the initials TD. Built of red brick in English bond with polychrome black bands and diaperwork, stone dressings and tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and brick chimneystacks.
It comprises a central head teacher's house called Private House at the front with apsidal-ended Dining Hall with Chapel over to rear and originally separate boys' and girls' accommodation on either side. Three storeys and basement, Private House having attics in addition. Private House has gable to the left with diaperwork, stone oculus and mullioned and transomed windows, some with trefoil heads, including two storey bay to right on lower floors. Arched doorcase with triple lancets to fanlight and Caernarvon-arched doorcase. Clustered brick chimneystack on right hand return. Set back gable to right and left with triple windows. Above Private house is the principal architectural feature of the building, a square tower with elaborate wooden corbelled balcony, spire with lucarnes and metal weathervane and smaller circular turret.
Attached to right hand side is former boys' accommodation of three storeys and basement and six bays with second floor half-hipped dormers with windows with Caernarvon arches (probable dormitories), first floor double arched windows and ground floor triple trefoil windows. This wing terminates in projecting gable with triple window to second floor and two double windows to lower floors. Attached to left of Private House is former girls' accommodation which comprises five set back bays similar to the other wing but terminating in a penultimate tower bay with spirelet with miniature lucarnes and end bay with second floor oriel. Deep plinth throughout. Rear elevation similar but with central five-bay deep apsidal-ended projection with dining Hall to ground floor and chapel above.
Interior has fine well staircase to Private House with trefoil-arched balustrading and quatrefoil fretwork, original fireplaces and wooden doors with stained glass panels. Four stone well staircases with cast iron panels. Dining hall has ceiling with roll-moulded panels. Chapel has barrel-vaulted roof, rose window and central window of apse retains original stained glass.
Listing NGR: TQ4052352458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461989
- 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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