Description

EDMUND STREET
1.
5104
(north-west side)
City Centre B3
No 98
SP 0687 SE 29/17 21.1.70
II* GV
2.
Built as the School Board Office. Circa 1875. Red brick, terracotta and
stone. In a Gothic style, by Chamberlain and Martin. Four storeys plus basement;
3 bays divided one from another by buttresses running the full height of the
building and with diminutive gables. Central entrance with open stone porch
the outer walls of whose balcony rise, crocketted, to embrace the first floor
central canted bay window. Ground floor windows with flat moulded heads in
which bands of foliage. First floor windows alternately trefoil-headed and
shouldered within arches on columns with sculptured capitals. Second floor
windows with trefoil heads beneath gables between which lushly carved foilage ground
Third floor with 3 couplets of trefoil-headed windows with a roundel in the
gables above.

Listing NGR: SP0670387038

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533713

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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