St Margarets School Including Courtyard Wall and Gates
ST MARGARETS SCHOOL INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATES, HALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338060
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets School Including Courtyard Wall and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARGARETS SCHOOL INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATES, HALL DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338060
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets School Including Courtyard Wall and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARGARETS SCHOOL INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATES, HALL DRIVE
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:
- ST MARGARETS SCHOOL INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATES, HALL DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gosfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77526 29885
Details
TL 72 NE GOSFIELD HALL DRIVE 7/164 St. Margarets School including courtyard wall and gates
GV II
Infants school, formerly the stables to Gosfield Hall. C18/C19. Red brick built with red plain tiled roofs. Half H-plan with gabled forward crosswings and centre forward feature gable to centre block. Red brick chimneys to crosswing gable apex. Six red brick chimneys to right range and two to rear range all with moulded bases and caps. Two storeys. Left range gable end with vertically boarded doors to both floors. Iron steps to first floor. The courtyard face with 5 window range to first floor, four range to ground floor of small paned vertically sliding sashes and double doors with two lights and two lights over. All with wide plain painted stucco surrounds. Centre range with 2:1:2 window range of matching windows right and left of gable. Central round headed window with margins and keystone over, below which are double panelled doors with lights and light over in matching surround. Clock to apex. Barge boards to gable. To the far right is a half glazed door with window over. The right range has two ground floor windows to gable end. Courtyard return with five window range to first floor of mainly matching windows whilst the ground floor has four circular leaded windows, a red tiled bay with a French door and a part glazed door with light over and side windows right and left. Between each pair of round windows is an external chimney stack. The courtyard is enclosed by a red brick wall approximately 2 metres high with round coping and central ornate double cast and wrought iron gates. Stone flags to courtyard.
Listing NGR: TL7752629885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114677
- 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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