Beethoven Street School
BEETHOVEN STREET SCHOOL, BEETHOVEN STREET W10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268356
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Beethoven Street School
- Statutory Address:
- BEETHOVEN STREET SCHOOL, BEETHOVEN STREET W10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268356
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Beethoven Street School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEETHOVEN STREET SCHOOL, BEETHOVEN STREET W10
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:
- BEETHOVEN STREET SCHOOL, BEETHOVEN STREET W10
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Queen's Park
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ2434482873
Details
TQ 2482 NW
1900-/17/10146
BEETHOVEN STREET, W10
Beethoven Street School
II
London Board School. 1881. Brown stock brick with red brick dressing, with large sash windows
throughout. Slate roof Symmetrical 'stripped Classical' style. Two ranges linked by large central hall. Range fronting Beethoven Street of two storeys, 6 windows either side of central projecting bay, 2 windows wide and pedimented with cupola on top. Cut and moulded red brick plaque surround with carved stone inset inscribed 'Beethoven Street School' matched on the other side with plaque: depicting letters 'LSB' against a background of naturalistic foliage. Hall: top-lit with wooden roof with wrought-iron ties. Wooden gallery at one end. Bronze plaque presented by William Reid Dick in 1935 depicting boys in a woodwork lesson with their teacher and inscribed: 'In the playshed of this school in September 1885, the first woodwork class in elementary schools in London was opened. The instructor was J .T Chenoweth. As the expenditure was illegal, it was disallowed and the class was temporarily suspended'. Single storey range of classrooms at rear, with tall stacks, gable ends with Venetian windows.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Beethoven Street School was opened in 1881 to serve the community of the newly-built Queen's Park Estate. In 1885 the school made history by running the capital's first woodwork classes. After a brief period of suspension due to lack of funds, the course re-started with money provided by the City and Guilds Institute and was later taken up by the London School Board as a model for other schools.
Listing NGR: TQ2434482873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461930
- 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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