Rosary Priory High School
ROSARY PRIORY HIGH SCHOOL, ELSTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346919
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rosary Priory High School
- Statutory Address:
- ROSARY PRIORY HIGH SCHOOL, ELSTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346919
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rosary Priory High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSARY PRIORY HIGH SCHOOL, ELSTREE ROAD
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:
- ROSARY PRIORY HIGH SCHOOL, ELSTREE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Hertsmere (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1540394919
Details
TQ 19 SE BUSHEY ELSTREE ROAD
(North side)
Bushey Heath
11/74 Rosary Priory
- High School
- II
Former large house, now school. c.1880. Ashlar with sandstone dressings. Slate roofs. Extravagant loosely classical style. 3 blocks, sides canted away from centre. 2 storeys and attic to centre and left. 3-storey block to right with 5 storey square tower and 7-storey octagonal tower. 3 bay central block: entrance to centre in 2 storey semi-circular porch, half-glazed doors, flanking round headed windows in architraves. Ground floor Corinthian pilasters. First floor glazed and louvred timber balcony with Ionic pilasters. Flanking bays have shallower bows. Doric pilasters and cornices, bracketed sills and cornice to first floor. Balustraded parapet with segmental headed dormers. Steep mansard roof with elliptical and circular openings and a central dormer. Surmounted by a tall lantern with 3 lights to front, corner pilasters, coved roof. To left is a 2-bay block with a linking bay, tripartite first floor window with a pediment and a dormer. Semi-circular bow projects forward to left. At far left end of front a canted bay with round headed windows. Axial stack on left block with panelled shaft and cornice.
To right is 3-storey tower block, canted bay to left with tall round headed sashes in keyed architraves rises to an octagonal head. To right a quadrant curve with 2 windows leads to octagonal tower in a white stone with red stone strips. Round-headed and square-headed windows on alternate floors on 4 sides. Ground floor banded rustication.
Moulded and bracketed cornices separate storeys. Balustraded parapet. To right of tower are 2 bays with cross windows in a central rectangular bay, bracketed cornices, balustraded parapet, vermiculated quoins. Behind this is 5-storey square tower. 2 bays to each side. 4th floor: triple round headed windows with moulded architraves and key blocks, sandstone Ionic pilasters. 5th floor: tripartite windows with bracketed cornices and central pediments. Bracketed cornice to open parapet. Pilasters at angles of tower with sandstone panels diminishing to corner turrets with open double arcades. 2 bays on right return of tower have ground floor banded rustication and round headed French windows with Doric columns in reveals. First and second floor rectangular oriel windows on carved brackets. Iron railings run across right half of ground floor front. Garden front: symmetrical 2:3:2. Centre block has steps up from basement to 2-storey porch, ground floor tetrastyle Corinthian, first floor glazed timber loggia with fluted Ionic pilasters. Flanking canted bays to round 3 storey turrets with round headed windows, that to left retains an open head with a Doric arcade, dentilled cornice to ogee cap. To sides and angled forward are paired canted bays, semi-circular bows at return ends. Iron railings run across ground floor. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Caldecote Towers and Caldecote Lodge. Attached C20 buildings not of special interest. (Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TQ1540394919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164122
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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