Form Room Block, At Haileybury And Imperial Service College 20 Metres West Of Quad

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD TL 3510 (east side) Hertford Heath 14/19 Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 metres 24.1.67 west of Quad

GV II

School building. 1905-8 by John William Simpson (1858 - 1926) and Ormerod Maxwell Aynton (1874 - 1960). Grey brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof. An E-shaped block on the axis of the W front. 2 storeys with pedimented central feature entirely in stone with arched octagonal cupola over. Projecting wings 3-windows wide and 3-windows each side of 3-window centre. Groin vaulted stone carriageway with vaulted side aisles on square stone piers, leads to main entrance. Pilastered Tuscan front with central arch and lower square headed doorways at sides each with keystones and porch over. Relief inscription in frieze of entablature at 1st floor level. Sash windows in moulded surrounds over, between corner pilasters. Mutular cornice and triangular pediment with scrolled cartouche withribbons and swags. Recessed sash windows with flat gauged arches and 6/6 panes. Stone cornice continues round block with corner pilasters and stone floorband and plinth. Entrances to form rooms within vaulted aisles of passage and in courtyard between deeply projecting rear wings. Subsidence led to removal of balconies in courtyard before 1914. (Blunt (1966) 20, 28).

Listing NGR: TL3567710708