TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL)

TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL), HUNTER CLOSE

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School, dated 1873, completed 1874; by Frederick W Roper, for the London School Board; converted to residential flats in 1990s. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385718
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1996
List Entry Name:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL)
Statutory Address:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL), HUNTER CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385718
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1996
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL)
Statutory Address 1:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL), HUNTER CLOSE
Statutory Address 2:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL), PRIORESS STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL), HUNTER CLOSE
Statutory Address:: TABARD STREET CENTRE (FORMER TABARD STREET SCHOOL), PRIORESS STREET

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 32970 79169

Details

BERMONDSEY 12-MAR-96 Tabard Street reet School) PRIORESS STREET (North side) Tabard Street reet School) (Formerly listed as: BARTHOLOMEW STREET TABARD STREET SCHOOLS) (Formerly listed as: NEW KENT ROAD GREAT HUNTER STREET SCHOOLS) (Formerly listed as: NEW KENT ROAD TABARD STREET SCHOOL) (Formerly listed as: GREAT DOVER STREET TABARD STREET SCHOOL) School, dated 1873, completed 1874; by Frederick W INTERIOR: not inspected. The building has been converted * the design has that measure of informality * it is a fine example from the early period * it is of special historic interest as one

636-1/5/10107 HUNTER CLOSE Centre (former Tabard St Centre (former Tabard St

II Roper, for the London School Board; converted to residential flats in 1990s.

MATERIALS: stock brick in English bond relieved by red and white brick; stone dressings. Original roofs renewed, but in the same style and design as the original.

PLAN: L-shaped plan of three storeys with four-stage bell tower near the south-east corner.

EXTERIOR: The chief elevation was that published by the architect in Building News, to the east, but which is now difficult to view: here the two wings come together and the tower adds a picturesque note. The majority of the windows have flat heads with chamfered stone lintels set under brick relieving arches, with the resulting tympana picked out in a basket-weave pattern of brick. There are several high stacks with simple brick caps. The long elevation to Hunter Close has three bays of paired windows under gabled half dormers, each gable with ventilating slits in the apex, and a large bay with the 1st- and 2nd-floor paired windows set in double-height pointed-arched recesses; this bay contains an entrance marked "Infants" and finishes in a facing gable with stack running through the peak. In the tympana are the initials "SBL" and the date "1873". The return to the left contains an entrance marked "Girls" set in a pointed aedicule. There is also a single-storey addition of lesser interest. to residential use but some original features such as staircases, roof structure and fireplaces may survive, although the plan form is likely to have been altered.

HISTORY: The former Tabard Street School (now a residential building known as the Tabard Centre) was built by the London School Board and dates from 1873. It was built to the designs of Frederick W Roper for the London School Board. It was originally known as the Great Hunter Street school. The school was opened just two years after the 1871 establishment of the London School Board, following the passage of the 1870 Elementary Education Act which compelled the attendance of young children at school and resulted in a surge of school building across the country. The London School Board was the most influential of the new Boards, and was responsible for vast numbers of schools across the capital, generally defined by their distinctive Queen Anne style architecture evolved by the Board's architect, E.R. Robson. Initially, however, the Board commissioned designs from private architectural practices. Where they survive, and many have been demolished or altered, schools from this period of private architect's designs are of particular interest. The London Board schools were described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as 'Beacons of the future!' often being the most identifiable and notable buildings in their late C19 urban neighbourhoods.

The Tabard Street School was converted to residential use in the 1990s.

SOURCES: Building News, 5 June 1874

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DESCISION: The Tabard Centre is listed for the following principal reasons: with hints of the Gothic Revival but an overall emphasis on direct, simple, construction, which is characteristic of the early School Board style; when Board Schools were built to the designs of private architects, before E.R. Robson's Queen Anne style schools became the norm; of the first wave of schools built after the Education Act of 1870.

Listing NGR: TQ3286279029

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'Building News' in 5 June, (1874)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.