Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art

Maidenhead Community Centre, 4, Marlow Road, Maidenhead, SL6 7YR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319353
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1980
List Entry Name:: Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art
Statutory Address:: Maidenhead Community Centre, 4, Marlow Road, Maidenhead, SL6 7YR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319353
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1980
List Entry Name:: Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art
Statutory Address 1:: Maidenhead Community Centre, 4, Marlow Road, Maidenhead, SL6 7YR

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:: Maidenhead Community Centre, 4, Marlow Road, Maidenhead, SL6 7YR

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

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 88538 81346

Details

his list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 April 2024 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SU 8881 SE 4/41

MARLOW ROAD (east side) No 4, Maidenhead Community Centre Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art

(Formerly listed as Main building and two side wings of Berkshire College of Art, MARLOW ROAD)

29.9.80

II 1895 by E J Shrewsbury, built as a Technical School. Red brick with terracotta dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical composition in Flemish Renaissance style. Main block of two storeys and basement, 4:3:4 windows. Taller projecting central three-bay section surmounted by raised attic with scrolled flanks and decorative pediment. Round-arched entrance in projecting porch with carved balcony over, having central pedimented name panel. Eaves cornices and window detailing in terracotta. Fancy glazed sash windows. Tall conjoined chimney shafts. One storey side wings have shaped gables with ball finials over lesenes.

The modern extension to the south wing is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SU8853881346

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Legacy System number:: 40753
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.