ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE

ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE, COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347788
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE, COLLEGE ROAD

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Date:: 2001-07-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347788
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE, COLLEGE 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:: ALBANS (GIRL'S HALL OF RESIDENCE), AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE, COLLEGE ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford Heath
National Grid Reference:: TL 35603 10846

Details

GREAT AMWELL COLLEGE ROAD TL 3510 (south side) Hertford Heath 14/9 Albans (girls' hall of residence), at Haileybury and Imperial Service College

GV II

Sanitorium, now a hall of residence. 1867, E wing 1894. A large 3-storeys polychrome Venetian Gothic building with hipped slate roofs, facing S. Symmetrical front with broad projecting wings and more elaborate projecting centre with 1-storey parapeted porch on front. Large square louvred cupola on top with gilded vane. Red brick walls with regular bands of dark brick. Offset plinth and moulded eaves band carried on stone corbels. Stone string courses at cill level on each floor and impost level to top floor. Paired lancets with Venetian arches with drip band and some voussoirs in dark brick. Recessed sash windows round headed on 2 upper floors but with roll-moulded lintel and herringbone brick tympanum on ground floor. Central projection has reserved corners with angle-stone at top: carved stone string to 1st floor at impost level, stone shafts with annulet, carved base and foliate capital in 3-light top window: and crocketed arched entrance with mosaic tympanum, carved brick arch with stone drip and imposts and nooks shafts. Doorway blocked as window. Later E wing in similar polychrome treatment without moulded stonework and with 3 grouped windows to each floor of projection. An impressive and elaborate Victorian school sanitorium.

Listing NGR: TL3560310846

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Legacy System number:: 355823
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.