Former Infant School
FORMER INFANT SCHOOL, SANDY HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387279
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Infant School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER INFANT SCHOOL, SANDY HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387279
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Infant School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER INFANT SCHOOL, SANDY HILL ROAD
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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:
- FORMER INFANT SCHOOL, SANDY HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 43826 78134
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/03/2013
TQ 4378
786/20/10118
SANDY HILL ROAD
Former Infant School
(Formerly listed as Woolwich Polytechnic (Former Infant School))
II
Infant School, 1899 for London Board Schools. Stock brick, engineering brick, red brick dressings, tile roofs. Single storey, comprising hall, seven classrooms and ancillary rooms. Near symmetrical. West (Sandy Hill Road) elevation. Three gabled wings those to left and right set forward. Triple sash windows with glazing bars, central top light with decorative glazing bars, top hung. Red brick dressings and rendered keystones. All beneath applied shaped gable in red brick with rendered shaped head, but under conventional gable, the infill pebble dash rendered. Central wing three tall identical sash windows with glazing bars, under curtailed flat topped gable with half-hip above. Gable in fine red brick, central plaque in stone inscribed Bloomfield Road School with monogram below. Entrance of paired doors beneath overlight to right, paired sashes to left. North entrance in stone doorcase with shallow flanking pilasters, beneath tablet inscribed INFANTS. North wing a pair of tall sashes with glazing bars beneath small pebble dash rendered gablets. East elevation of outer gabled wings set forward, treated as Sandy Road elevation, the southern wing with small tripartite window with central decorative glazing bars on moulded brick base. Between, gabletted bays, three with tall paired sash windows with glazing bars, one a single light. Right hand entrance beneath overlight. Interior tall airy classrooms with part exposed roof trusses.
Formerly also used as Woolwich Polytechnic building, now converted into homes.
HART thematic report, London Board Schools, Andrew Saint, 1991
LCC Plans of Elementary Schools, G. Topham Forest, G.H. Gater, 1931
Listing NGR: TQ4382678134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475215
- 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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