South London College
SOUTH LONDON COLLEGE, TOOLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385975
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- South London College
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH LONDON COLLEGE, TOOLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385975
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- South London College
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH LONDON COLLEGE, TOOLEY STREET
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 LONDON COLLEGE, TOOLEY 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 33487 80014
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3380 TOOLEY STREET 636-1/2/787 (North side) 27/09/72 South London College (Formerly Listed as: TOOLEY STREET (North side) St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School)
II
Grammar school, now college. 1893. By EW Mountford. Red brick with white stone dressings and slate roof. Symmetrical main section (containing hall) with projecting wings, further large extensions to left. EXTERIOR: central section of 1 tall storey and attic, 5 bays. Main windows which have stone shouldered architraves, aprons, and pulvinated friezes with keystones supporting cornices alternate with attached Ionic columns supporting balustraded parapet over entablature which breaks forward around projecting wings. Projecting centrepiece to this stone-banded section, with break-front segmental pediment with carved figures of pupils learning in tympanum. Round-arched dormers in steep pitched roof which has lantern tower with Ionic order and cupola rising from ridge. Projecting side sections with stone plinth and quoins have 3 storeys and clerestory in pitched roof behind shaped gable ends, 3 windows to each with a similar segmental pediment to the 2nd floor containing figures representing the professions. Windows are sashes with glazing bars and stone architraves, those to ground floor segmental-headed with keystones. Extension to left of 3 storeys with attic dormers behind parapet, 3 bays. Ionic quadrant entrance porch in angle, cornice and window treatment similar to wings of main section; further extension to left (formerly open on the ground floor) with central projecting polygonal stair-turret; 3 storeys with clerestory in pitched roof, 3 bays to front with shaped gable. Large round-headed openings to ground floor with keystones and quarter columns set into sides; central door with entablature and keystone in projecting stair-turret. 1st floor windows segmental-headed. 2nd floor has 3 and 4-light windows which form continuous band around stair-turret. Stone banded chimney stacks, one continuing down as a projecting bay on side of left wing. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Originally St Olave's Grammar School, the building is now South London College.
Listing NGR: TQ3348780014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471395
- 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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