Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 HARPER ROAD
636-1/5/420 (East side)
Joseph Lancaster Primary School

II

Formerly known as: Harper Road School HARPER ROAD.
Board school. Designed 1873, dated 1875. By RW Edis,
architect. For the London School Board.
Stock brick in English bond with dressings in red brick and
terracotta. Brick plinth. Red and black brick in header bond
forming diaper pattern. Tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 6-window range to Harper Road. In the
centre of the ground floor, main elevation, a window set in a
shallow, pointed-arch recess; trio of segmental-arched windows
to either side. Segmental-arched openings to 1st-floor
windows, the centre 4 of which are paired.
Second floor treated as a recessed attic range, dominated by a
pair of gable dormers with flat-arched windows set in shallow
pointed-arch recesses; the tympana filled with floral designs.
Right return of Harper Street range gable ended of one-window
range, before setting back to range that is finished in a
manner that is quite close to that of the main elevation:
4-window range wing, the centre terminating in gable-facing
dormer.
Left return of roughly similar plan, with a pair of catslide
dormers flanking a gable-facing dormer.
Carved and inscribed stone plaque to centre of main range,
just above lintels of 1st-floor windows. Extension to rear of
later C19 or early C20 does not compromise the silhouette of
the original. Some rebuilding of the original fabric,
particularly to upper floor. Otherwise windows and brick
finishes of authentic design.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
An early example of the work of the London School Board,
before the characteristic style was evolved by ER Robson; like
many designs from the early period of its activity, the Harper
Road School is redolent of the Gothic Revival.

Listing NGR: TQ3251879108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665373

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Care and Repair