Barclay School
BARCLAY SCHOOL, WALKERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348063
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Barclay School
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAY SCHOOL, WALKERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348063
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Barclay School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAY SCHOOL, WALKERN 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:
- BARCLAY SCHOOL, WALKERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Stevenage (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23691 25650
Details
STEVENAGE WALKERN ROAD
TL 2325
733/2/10001 Barclay School II
Secondary School. 1950-51. Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall. Brick, stone rubble, glass bricks, precast concrete panels, reinforced concrete. Flat roof. One and two storeys. Plan roughly 'H' shaped. Extensively glazed with horizontal strip widows; metal frames. Entrance has curved wall, supporting a pergola over the entrance. Angular concrete staircases at intervals externally. Fine, spacious entrance hall with ironstone paving, two staircases and glass brick wall; also abstract mural by Kenneth Rowntree. This was the first co- educational school in Hertfordshire. It was awarded the RIBA Bronze Medal.
A. Saint, Towards A Social Architecture;
A. Powers, In the Line of Development.
Listing NGR: TL2369125650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Powers, A, In the Line of Development, (1992)
Saint, A, Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, (1987)
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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