SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE

SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE, WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET SW18

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357667
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE, WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET SW18

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357667
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE, WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET SW18

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:: SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE, WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET SW18

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 25830 74622

Details

TQ 2574 12/100

WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET SW18 (south side) South Thames College

9.3.82

II 1926 by G Topham Forrest, extended to west 1937 by E.P Wheeler and H.F.T Cooper. Steel frame construction faced with red brick. Tiled roof.

Main building is of E-shaped plan. Block at east corner set diagonally and surmounted by pyramidal lantern roof. Four-storeys. Long blind wall to north masking ground floor, upper storeys recessed. Rectangular windows with glazing bars. Some vernacular detail, such as dormer windows to third floor, gables and oriel windows above main entrance and on west block of extension, and some 'modernistic', such as block-like central feature with geometric detail. It is externally unaltered from when built.

Formerly the Wandsworth Technical Institute.

Listing NGR: TQ2583074622

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Legacy System number:: 207168
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.