Mary Ward Centre And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ3082SW TAVISTOCK PLACE 798-1/95/1591 (North side) 14/05/74 No.9 Mary Ward Centre and attached railings

GV II

School for handicapped children, now social centre. c1903. By Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer. For the Passmore Edwards Settlement, later called the Mary Ward Settlement. Red brick with slated, hipped roof and dormers. Rectangular plan with projecting wings to main, east, facade in courtyard facing former Mary Ward Settlement (qv). Neo-Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 11 windows. Single storey entrance extension to Tavistock Place. Entrance facade with slightly projecting bay; bracketed hood to 2-leaf doors. Above the hood, a lunette with brick relief keystone and radiating strips. Bay flanked by narrow, vertically set flush sashes with exposed boxing and brick sills. Stone capped parapet, set back from which, top storey of the school; 3 similar sashes under a modillion cornice. East facade of school symmetrical; central, slightly projecting, brick porch with plain bracketed canopy over recessed doorway. Above the canopy, a fanlight with radiating brick relief strips. Gauged brick flat arches to flush sashes with exposed boxing. Beneath the central sash on each wing, a wooden door with glazing bars to the level of the flanking windows' sills. Projecting, stone modillion cornice. Central dormer of Palladian window type with date 1903 on enriched, blind centre panel. Entrance extension with 2 sashes and stone capped parapet. Decorated lead rainwater heads. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron area railings of rectangular bars set diagonally with splayed tops and posts of bars bent and riveted to form an arch.

Listing NGR: TQ3003282380