Russell Hill Schools (Thomas More School For Boys) , Main Building
RUSSELL HILL SCHOOLS (THOMAS MORE SCHOOL FOR BOYS), MAIN BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294476
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Russell Hill Schools (Thomas More School For Boys) , Main Building
- Statutory Address:
- RUSSELL HILL SCHOOLS (THOMAS MORE SCHOOL FOR BOYS), MAIN BUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294476
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Russell Hill Schools (Thomas More School For Boys) , Main Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSSELL HILL SCHOOLS (THOMAS MORE SCHOOL FOR BOYS), MAIN BUILDING
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:
- RUSSELL HILL SCHOOLS (THOMAS MORE SCHOOL FOR BOYS), MAIN BUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3108562169
Details
1.
5009
TQ 36 SW
5/24
RUSSELL HILL
Russell Hill Schools (Thomas More School for Boys), Main Building
II
2.
1863, by John George Bland. Built as Royal Warehousemen's, Clerks's and Drapers's
School. Large building in Venetian Gothic. Red brick with dressings of blue brick
and Bath stone. Long asymmetrical front with an entrance block linked to wings of
unequal length. Entrance block 3 storeys high and 3 bays wide, with projecting central
bay rising to a gable in steeply pitched roof. Central doorway with triple moulded
pointed arch flanked by triplets of windows with stilted arches and attached columns
with floriated caps. First floor windows of similar pattern set under pointed relieving
arches with a pierced roundel in tympana of arches on either side of central bay.
Central window has stone balcony supported on brackets with decorate iron balustrade.
Brick on edge ornament between ground and first and first and second floors. Windows
of second floor have stilted square heads with pierced panel above. Wide eaves with
ornamental soffit. Tall hipped slate roof with small square tower and pyramidal
spirelet. The central block is linked by lower 2 storeyed blocks to 3 storey wings,
with similar treatment. Variegated slate roofs with ornamental overhang. The left
hand wing is 4 bays wide with one projecting off-centre bay, the right hand wing has
8 bays with 2 projecting bays. The return elevations continue the window pattern for
one bay.
Listing NGR: TQ3108562169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201236
- 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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