Description

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD
TL 3510 (east side)

Hertford Heath
14/24 Bradby Hall, Gymnasium and
workshops at Haileybury
andImperial Service
24.1.67 College 90 metres east of Quad

GV II

School buildings. 1887-8 by Reginald Blomfield. The hall named
after the celebrated Dr Bradby, Head Master for 15 years up to
1883. Red brick with stone dressings and steep red tiled gabled
roofs. A tall two and a half storeys rectangular block with
entrance up 7 steps in W gable end. Lower 2 storeys block as
cross-wing at E end. Tall single storey gymnasium block attached
at E. 7-bay hall-block in elaborate Dutch renaissance style with
tall 2-storeys octagonal cupola at centre of roof. Sides have
buttresses with moulded offsets rising to a brick cornice and
central 5-panels carried up as a range of dormer windows.
Mullioned and transomed wooden windows. Large moulded stucco
panels with inscriptions at upper floor level. Entrance by round
arched opening under large stone balcony. Gabled parapet with
stone balls and pilasters flanking upper round arched windows.
Fine timberframed 1st floor hall with arcaded galleries and open
timber roof in Jacobean style, approached by similar staircase.
Simpler gym block with tall octagonal louvred cupola with ogee
lead cap. 5 3-light windows set high on N front entrance under
central window. Moulded plinth and band at sill level, and full
entablature in rubbed red brick. Steep hipped tile slopes to
edges of wide-span square roof. Pedimented hood on moulded
brackets to 3-panel double doors. Lower block with rounded gable
and 3-windows linking Bradby Hall on W. 2 tall round arches in
screen on E linking to laundry yard (Blunt (1966) 18, 19, 28).

Listing NGR: TL3593010735

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638880

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)