|
| |
Listed Building Description
Dewhurst St Mary JMI School, Churchgate, Cheshunt
l64O for Richard Dewhurst. Rare example of red brick
school building from period. Single storey and attics, modern tile
roof. E elevation has 6 brick-coped gables set over 4-light ground
floor brick-mullioned windows which are separated by moulded,
stepped buttresses. Centre 2 windows longer than others. Continuous
plinth. Large ovolo-moulded floor band RD l64O plaque to 3rd gable
from left. l-bay yellow stock brick extension on N, continuing floor
band. S end has tall chimney stack of 6 square conjoined shafts, and
on S end of W elevation is a square projecting staircase tower,
gabled on 2 sides, with chamfered arch-headed door on S ground floor
and date plaque to gable., Taller gabled square projection N of
this, but remainder of W side has an attached Cl9 gabled extension
in salmon pink brick which repeats the mullioned windows and moulded
buttresses of main building.
12/26 Grade II*. Listed in 1954.
|
|
|
