Description

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5023
TQ 3078 4/491

KENNINGTON LANE SE11
No 312 (Herbert House)

GV
II*

1860-2, by J L Pearson. Built as St Peter's Orphanage and Training College for the daughters of clergy and professionals. Three storeys, of stock brick with bands and dressings of Bath stone. Tiled roof, tall brick chimneys. High Victorian Gothic style with French touches. Flat facade with irregularly-spaced windows, mostly having blank arches over ornamental brick tympana. Small gable left of centre breaks through brick dentilled cornice. Half-hipped gable on east end. Turret with conical cap at rear. Entrance from porch set back in small court between church and this building formed from chamfered comer supported on stout balustraded column.

Listing NGR: TQ3070678085

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Herbert House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17552970

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)