NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL

NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL, ROMELAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347136
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL, ROMELAND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347136
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL, ROMELAND

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTH BLOCK ST ALBANS SCHOOL, ROMELAND

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 14358 07167

Details

ROMELAND 1. 1582 North Block St Albans School TL 1407 SW 8/267B

II GV

2. Early C20, also of flint with random red and yellow bricks and stone dressings. Battlemented parapet over cornice, plinth of brick only. 2 storeys, 5 windows, which are 3-light, stone-mullioned, leaded casements, those on 1st floor under square hoodmoulds. An exception is 1st floor centre window, with tracery under a 4-centred arch. Central, projecting, battlemented stone porch on ground floor, has door under 4-centred arch with hoodmould. Cornice of porch is continuous with string above ground floor windows. Stepped, diagonal buttresses with stone quoins at angles of building; stone diagonal buttresses at angles of porch.

The Abbey Gate and St Alban's School buildings form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1435807167

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Legacy System number:: 163391
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.