Herne Hill School and Attached Walls and Terraces
HERNE HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACES, HERNE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385600
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Herne Hill School and Attached Walls and Terraces
- Statutory Address:
- HERNE HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACES, HERNE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385600
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Herne Hill School and Attached Walls and Terraces
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERNE HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACES, HERNE HILL
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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:
- HERNE HILL SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACES, HERNE HILL
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:
- TQ 32186 74572
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3274 HERNE HILL 636-1/14/425 (South East side) Herne Hill School and attached walls and terraces
GV II
Formerly known as: Vicarage to Church of St Paul HERNE HILL. Vicarage, now Church of England school. c1860. RW Drew, architect. Brick in English bond, red brick diapering and red brick pointed segmental relieving arches over most of the openings; flush stone surrounds to flat- and pointed-arched openings. Roof of tile. High Victorian Gothic. EXTERIOR: garden elevation: 2-window range, 2 storeys with attic dormers to right-hand side of the composition; left-hand side of 1st floor blank, terminates in a facing gable, with triple window with pointed lancets; 1st-floor windows pointed arch, one a double window; hipped dormers over 1st-floor windows. Flat-arched French doors open out onto terrace enclosed by stone walls which appear original; 2 hipped dormers to east of gable. View of west-facing elevation restricted: features of note include a full-height canted bay; stone and brick flushwork spandrels to 1st-floor windows; iron finial to hipped bay roof. East elevation restricted from view; stacks to east wall on line with stair hall. North-facing elevation divided into 2 gable facing ranges, that on the left with 2-window range, and gableted peak: lean-to porch with triple windows and pointed diaphragm arch; to the left of porch a 2-light mullioned window; 1st-floor 2-light Y-tracery mullioned light lighting stair hall; triple window just below peak The right-hand range has no windows and is dominated by full-height chimney stack. Sill band to 1st-floor windows and brick cornice, continuous across the elevations. INTERIOR: stair hall full height, with cantilevered open-well stair; newel posts topped by quatrefoil crosses; door cases off stair hall made from plainly chamfered and painted wood, a feature which anticipates the Arts and Crafts work of the 1870s; fireplaces with finely carved Gothic ornament on the ground floor. The upstairs rooms rather plain. Forms a group with St Paul's Church, Herne Hill (qv), designed by Street.
Listing NGR: TQ3218674572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471004
- 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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