West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway

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TQ2485SE 798-1/34/118

CAMDEN DORNFELL STREET (west side) West Hampstead Primary School and attached railings and gateway

(Formerly listed as Beckford Primary School and attached railings and gateway. BROOMSLEIGH STREET (West side))

GV II Board school, now a primary school. 1885-86 and 1891, some later alterations. By TJ Bailey. For the School Board of London. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. Tiled roofs with tall slab chimney-stacks rising from party walls. Asymmetrical design on a south sloping site. Four and three storeys. Two left hand bays identical, each upper floor with groups of three windows having glazing bars, cornice at third floor sill level and central third floor windows having segmental-arched heads extending into inswept pediments surmounted by small stone pediments. Recessed central bay of small paired sashes. Two right hand bays with similar windows to left but terminating in large Flemish gables, left hand with oculus and slab chimney-stack with bellcote, right hand with plaque.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached pedimented stone Infants gateway dated 1886 and railings with fleur-de-lys finials.

Listing NGR: TQ2492885075