Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. School. 3 related planning applications.

Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad

WRENN ID
winter-mortar-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
School
Address
Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad, SG13 7NU
OS grid reference
TL 356 107
Coordinates
51.7786, -0.03469
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Form Room Block at Haileybury and Imperial Service College is a school building constructed between 1905 and 1908 by architects John William Simpson and Ormerod Maxwell Aynton. It is made of grey brick with stone dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The building has an E-shaped layout aligned with the western front and consists of two storeys.

A prominent central feature, entirely in stone, includes a pediment and an arched octagonal cupola above. The projecting wings are three windows wide, with three windows on each side of a three-window centre. A groin vaulted stone carriageway, supported by square stone piers, leads to the main entrance, which has a pilastered Tuscan front. This entrance features a central arch and lower square-headed doorways on either side, each adorned with keystones and a porch above.

At the first floor level, there is a relief inscription in the frieze of the entablature. The building has sash windows in moulded surrounds, positioned between corner pilasters. A mutular cornice and triangular pediment with a scrolled cartouche, ribbons, and swags enhance the design. The recessed sash windows have flat gauged arches and 6/6 panes. A stone cornice wraps around the block, complemented by corner pilasters, a stone floorband, and a plinth.

Entrances to the form rooms are located within the vaulted aisles of the passage and in the courtyard between the deeply projecting rear wings. Notably, subsidence led to the removal of balconies in the courtyard before 1914.

Local climate

Form Room Block, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 20 Metres West of Quad sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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