Grammar School
GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353931
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1353931
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HURST 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:
- GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17495 31558
Details
HURST ROAD 1. 1236 (North Side) Grammar School TQ 1731 2/123 II 2. 1892 by Arthur Vernon. Asymmetrical. 2 storeys with additional attic and basement at east end. 9 windows. Red brick with stone dressings. Chimneys with moulded brick cornice. Red tiled roof with moulded eaves cornice. Stringcourses between storeys and plinth. Large gables with parapets and stone cappings flanking the front. In west gable, a stone quatrefoil set in imitation chip-carved fields under pointed relieving arch. Underneath, a large mullioned window rising through both storeys with 5 stone heraldic panels dividing the storeys. Gothic tops to the lights. Under east gable, bay window of 3 lights rising through both storeys, with parapet containing inset quatrefoils, corbelled out over basement window. 2-light attic window in the gable set under a pointed relieving arch filled with imitation chip-carving in moulded brick. Towards west end, buttressed porch of 2 storeys and attic with stone-panelled parapet. Tracery quatrefoil set in a pointed window with hood mould over a pair of lights. Underneath the inscription "Grammar School founded by Richard Collier AD 1532", and below doorway with carved spandrels. 3 small buttressed bays with gablets grouped asymmetrically in middle of the front. Paired lights. 3-pointed relieving arches in gables with imitation chip-carved fields in moulded brick. Small pointed door with hood mould at east end with internal stair lit by lancets. Other windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights, those on ground floor under segmental relieving arches. All plate glass windows. Subsidiary wing with simpler detail in Richmond Road.
Listing NGR: TQ1749531558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 298145
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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