MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL

MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL, DERBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295344
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:: MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL, DERBY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295344
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:: MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL, DERBY ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MAIN BLOCK AT WATFORD CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL, DERBY ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Watford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 11345 96450

Details

1. 5259 DERBY ROAD (north side)

Main block at Watford Central Primary School TQ 1196 SW 10/75

II

2. 1884 brick board school. Central 2-storey main block with steep hipped slate roof, bargeboarded gablets and central timber and copper fleche. Cable to centre front. Five window range. Moulded brickwork to eaves and gable, long corbels and moulded brick cornices between. Windows mostly plate glass casements with fixed top-lights with glazing bars. Cambered window heads with fluted keystones. Broad band of pressed brick decoration between floors with Higher Elementary Schools incised. Buttresses between windows with stone set-offs, narrow string over at springing level of upper window heads. Central 1st floor window flat-headed with stone tympanum over in Gothic moulded brick arch rising into gable. Moulded brick Gothic central doorway with deep-set door. To each side one storey wings, 3 windows to west, 4 windows to east with triple windows under stone lintels. Outer sections gabled with moulded Gothic arch over windows and small Gothic lunette above lintel, over central light.

Listing NGR: TQ1134596450

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Legacy System number:: 158158
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.