Bronte School and Attached Conservatory
BRONTE SCHOOL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, PELHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376500
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Bronte School and Attached Conservatory
- Statutory Address:
- BRONTE SCHOOL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, PELHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376500
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Bronte School and Attached Conservatory
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRONTE SCHOOL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, PELHAM ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- BRONTE SCHOOL AND ATTACHED CONSERVATORY, PELHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Gravesham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 64339 73908
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/01/2013
TQ 67 SW
742/8/10005
GRAVESEND
PELHAM ROAD
(North West side)
Bronte School and attached conservatory
(Formerly listed as Mayfield and attached conservatory)
II
House and attached conservatory, later school. Built in 1875 and designed by I C Johnson, who claimed to be the first developer of Portland cement, as his residence. It is an Italianate villa built of concrete which has been colourwashed with slate roof and end concrete chimneystacks. Three storeys; five windows. Sashes without glazing bars. Double pile plan. End quoins and rusticated ground floor with platband. Projecting central bay. Second floor windows have cambered heads and moulded architraves. First floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices on brackets. Central round-headed entrance portico with impost blocks and cornice with scroll brackets. Doorcase, approached up five steps has round-headed fanlight and double doors with tall reeded panel to each half. Attached to north side is contemporary concrete conservatory with six marginal glazed sashes with red and yellow stained glass divided by pilasters and roof now covered in corrugated asbestos sheeting. An early concrete residential building which is also a link with a local industrial heritage.
Listing NGR: TQ6433973908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470502
- 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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