Description

TURNEY ROAD SE21
1. (north side)
5023

Main building of
Rosendale Junior Mixed
School
TQ 3273 28/969

II

2.
1899. London School Board building dated on plaque in gable; an earlier version
of more developed style shown in Sunnyhill Road (qv). Stock brick with red brick
and stone dressings, Two-storey tall centre block of 2 wide bays whose paired
central gables are divided by a tall chimney with cupola on ridge behind. At
sides the high-pitched tiled roof sweeps down to a moulded brick eaves cornice
at much lower level. One-storey side wings have similar inner gabled sections
and outer roofs with eaves much lower. Below the gables are tall windows; the
flanking walls are blank but for ornamental panels with titles on first floor
of central blOck. One-storey irregular return wings have projecting gabled ends
and tall inner gables rising through eaves as in front. Curved brick shapes against
a pale roughcast background give a Dutch appearance to the end gables.

Listing NGR: TQ3227073625

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26356185

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair