South Thames College
SOUTH THAMES COLLEGE, WANDSWORTH HIGH STREET SW18
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207168
- 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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