Wyvern First School
WYVERN FIRST SCHOOL, AYLESBURY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389355
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wyvern First School
- Statutory Address:
- WYVERN FIRST SCHOOL, AYLESBURY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389355
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wyvern First School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYVERN FIRST SCHOOL, AYLESBURY 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:
- WYVERN FIRST SCHOOL, AYLESBURY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverton and Greenleys
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81327 40917
Details
891/0/10013 AYLESBURY STREET
18-JUL-01 Wyvern First School
GV II
First School, originally combined elementary school for infants and girls. Built 1906 for Bucks County Education Committee; some C20 alterations. Architects Messrs Harrington, Ley and Kerkham of 65 Bishopsgate St Without, London. General contractor E. Archer of Northampton. Fireproof construction of brick with concrete floors. Facings of Heather brick (a high quality red brick) in English bond with extensive Bath stone dressings. Hipped and gabled slate roofs and ribbed lead ogee roofs to stair turrets and painted wood louvres.
PLAN: U-shaped range of classrooms with a stair around a hall to the rear at ground and first floors. Stairway and cloakrooms to each wing in the U.
ELEVATION: Main front faces Aylesbury Street to north and is set back from street within railings. Central block breaks forward and has four stone-coped gables framing the heads of large Venetian windows above groups of three tall windows to ground floor. Windows have stone key-blocked heads. Wings either side have open Tuscan-columned stone porches which flank centre with friezes bearing plaques lettered in raised capitals INFANTS. Wings have tall windows to first floor with semi-circular stone dormer heads. Pilaster buttresses of alternating stone and brick, alternating bands of stone and red brick to first floor. Painted wood louvres to middle of ridge of central block and to wings with ogee lead roofs. Cast-iron rainwater heads bear ying-yang motif. Rear elevation, from which girls school on first floor was originally entered, has a pair of full-height projecting stair turrets either side of central section terminated above eaves level by ribbed lead ogee roofs.
INTERIOR: Wood block and terrazzo floors. Glazed brick dados. Wrought iron trusses to tall upper hall. Internal windows provide light from hall to classrooms in the U. Cloakrooms retain fittings.
SOURCES: The Bucks Standard, Saturday June 2, 1906.
Listing NGR: SP8132640915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487997
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Bucks Standard in The Bucks Standard, (1906), June 2
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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