Dulwich College Preparatory School and Attached Balustrade
DULWICH COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, DULWICH COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385467
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dulwich College Preparatory School and Attached Balustrade
- Statutory Address:
- DULWICH COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, DULWICH COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385467
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Dulwich College Preparatory School and Attached Balustrade
- Statutory Address 1:
- DULWICH COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, DULWICH COMMON
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:
- DULWICH COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, DULWICH COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ3293273112
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3273 DULWICH COMMON
636-1/15/283 (North side)
Dulwich College Preparatory School,
and attached balustrade
II
Formerly known as: Brightlands DULWICH COMMOM.
House. 1862-1884. By Charles Barry Junior. For solicitor of
Dulwich College Estates, now Dulwich College Preparatory
School. French Second Empire style.
MATERIALS: brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings. Mansard
roof of slate.
PLAN: roughly rectangular in plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and dormers over basement. Garden
elevation to south has 5-window range, the end ranges treated
as slightly projecting pavilions. Brick to basement treated as
rustication with a stone plinth to ground-floor on all
elevations. To ground floor in each end range, a flat-arched
tripartite window with cornice above and architrave.
Flat-arched centre windows set in round-arched recesses with
springing band; the tympanum of each filled with a shell
motif; keystone to each round arch historiated. Sill band to
1st-floor windows which are flat-arched with shouldered and
eared architraves. Entablature and cornice to all elevations.
3 dormer windows, pedimented with shouldered architrave
symmetrically disposed.
Right return with double-height, round-arched stair window; to
either side a chimney breast; segmental-arched entrance in
centre. All stacks above roof line have been altered.
Left return of 2-window range; all windows flat-arched, those
to the ground-floor with architraves.
Entrance elevation: the right side of this sets back to form a
distinctly plainer wing with chimney breast. The main section
has a 3-window range, bilaterally symmetrical about a
single-storey entrance porch with coupled Tuscan corner
pilasters; spandrels of round-arched door ornamented with
shields set in acanthus scrolls; keystone carved as bearded
man. All other openings are flat-arched, those to either side
of entrance with architraves and cornice brackets. Sill band
to 1st floor, with windows similar to those on the garden
elevation. 3 dormers as on garden elevation.
INTERIOR: south-facing room, ground-floor with original
cornice and fire surround; cornice moulding in hall and
elsewhere. Stair has wreathed handrail with curtail step;
turned spindles. Of special interest is a concrete crawlspace
built when the building was used by the army during WWII; this
led from east side of basement to basement of house to the
east.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: parapet with balustrade to entrance
elevation.
(Piggot, J: Charles Barry Junior and the Dulwich College
Estate: 1986-: 9).
Listing NGR: TQ3293273112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470865
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Piggot, J, Charles Barry Junior and the Dulwich College Estate, (1986), 9
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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