Theobalds Park College
THEOBALDS PARK COLLEGE, BULLS CROSS RIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348341
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Theobalds Park College
- Statutory Address:
- THEOBALDS PARK COLLEGE, BULLS CROSS RIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348341
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Theobalds Park College
- Statutory Address 1:
- THEOBALDS PARK COLLEGE, BULLS CROSS RIDE
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:
- THEOBALDS PARK COLLEGE, BULLS CROSS RIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Broxbourne (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34492 00724
Details
1. 5251 CHESHUNT BULLS CROSS RIDE (north east side) Waltham Cross Theobalds Park College (formerly listed as Middlesex County Council Secondary School TL 30SW : 4/41 11.6.54 (Formerly Theobalds Park Hotel)
II*
2. 1763 for George Prescott, extended N and S by the Meux family in early and late C19. Red brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. 3 storeys. 5-window W entrance front with slightly projecting pedimented centre having balustraded 1-storey portico and 1st floor Venetian windows. Modillioned cornice, parapet. Forward-curving 1 storey colonades to small outer wings with brick modillioned cornices and pediments facing courtyard. E garden elevation with full height canted window bay and Gd floor and 1st floor flanking Venetian windows. Balustraded parapet and bracketed cornice continuous with N and S, 4-window, early C19 additions, which have large Gd floor Venetian windows with paired Greek Ionic columns. Further 4-window late C19 extensions on N with similar details; S end has 5-stage French Renaissance style square tower with banded stone courses, 4th and 5th floors with applied pilasters and shell headed windows. Terracotta frieze and stone balustrading.
Interior has good entrance hall on W side, divided by Venetian screens with Adam style detail. Grotesque painted central ceiling, semicircular staircase on N. E centre room with very gocd, reused, early-C17 arcaded panelling with Corinthian half columns, foliate ornament and figured console brackets. N room on E front has rich early-C19 deep coffered-octagonal plan ceiling. (Pevrsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL3449200724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157263
- 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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