ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL

ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL, ASCHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331937
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL
Statutory Address:: ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL, ASCHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331937
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL, ASCHAM 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:: ROGER ASCHAM SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND HALL, ASCHAM ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 45436 60024

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/11/2016

TL 46 SE 19/10004

ASCHAM ROAD Roger Ascham School: Administration Building and Hall

II Administration building and hall of open-air school. 1927 by G W Teasdale, borough architect. Red Flemish bond brick plinth and pebble-dash above with red brick dressings. Plain tile gable ended roofs. Brick axial stacks.

Plan: T-shaped plan; the front range contains staff and nurses rooms and kitchen to left of centre behind which is the large assembly hall wing.

Exterior: Single storey. Asymmetrical 2:2:2:3-bay front, the 2 bays to left of centre gabled with brick pilasters and brick round relieving arches over windows. Windows are cross-mullion transomed with glazing bars and casements. Glazed and panelled doors to left and right of centre bays with canopies on brackets. Thin-brick corner pilasters. The hall at rear has brick buttresses with set-offs between 3-light mullion transom windows with glazing bars and has 2 small fleche-like ventilators on ridge. Foundation stone to left of centre at front.

Interior: Hall is open to roof, the trusses with low collars and tie rods.

Listing NGR: TL4543660024

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 47930
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
List of Special Schools, (1920)
List of Special Schools, (1927)
List of Special Schools, (1974)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.