Description

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD
TL 3510 (east side)

Hertford Heath
14/17 South Lodge,
at Haileybury and Imperial
24.1.67 Service College

GV II

School building. 1899 by Reginald Blomfield as SCHOLA MUSICAE on
site of the old lodge. Red brick with stone dressings and
Westmorland Slate roof. A tall rectangular building of one
storey and attics, with a 7-windows W front to the road and
gable entrance on N end to the drive. Stone quoins and eaves
band with moulded wooden cornice. Triangular pediments to gables
and 3-windows wide projection in middle of road front. This has
a large lunnette in the gable and stone keystones to rubbed brick
flat arches over the slightly recessed boxed sash windows with
6/6 panes. Narrower sash windows to this front have 4/4 panes.
High entrance door on N up 3 steps, has an eared moulded
architrave with stepped keystone within stone Tuscan engaged
columns supporting an inscribed beam and broken pediment. The
tympanum is entirely in fine red rubbed brickwork with central
moulded stone window surround and projecting keystone and apron.
The E front is as the road front but with a round arched doorway
in the central pedimented projection (Blunt (1966)).

Listing NGR: TL3554810593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26349651

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)