Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3375NE BELLENDEN ROAD 636-1/47/34 (South East side) Southwark Educational Services Centre and perimeter wall

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Board school, now local authority offices. Dated 1876, extension to rear dated 1895. By ER Robson, architect to the School Board for London. MATERIALS: red and yellow brick in unusual bond, course of alternating headers and stretchers, alternates with header courses; dressings in brick and rubbed brick. Roof of tile. PLAN: H-shaped plan. 8-window range with 2-window range gable-facing cross wings to Bellenden Road. Return of cross wings to Maxted Road of 2-window range; 3-window to full-height rear wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement. The ground- and 1st-floor windows are segmental-arched; 2nd-floor windows to cross wings are also segmental-arched. Second-floor windows of intermediate range are flat-arched and paired; alternate pairs finish in high gabled dormers and project below the sill band; cornice found to smaller paired windows. The tall gable windows also linked by a sill band which serves to divide the 1st and 2nd floors. Storey band between ground and 1st floors. Alternate 1st-floor windows in intermediate range are divided by flat, brick pilaster strips, having a capital formed by the silhouette of a Jacobean column; each 1st-floor window to cross wings framed by pilaster; Dutch gable to cross wings, with string courses continuing from 2nd floor of intermediate range. First floor of left return articulated as a series of segmental-arched blind arcades, 2 pierced by small windows; in outer arcades plaques bearing the date and the insignia of the London School Board. The bay elevation repeated on rear. Cross-wing like extension to rear contains halls and has a Dutch scrolled gable; designed in a sympathetic style and included in this listing. Square cupola to roof tapering to octagonal bell stage. Stacks at inner corner of cross wings. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: perimeter wall of brick in Flemish bond with ornamental gateway.



Listing NGR: TQ3393775904

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