Education Offices, Downhills School And Railings And Walls To Front

HARINGEY TQ32 89 PHILIP LANE 800- /25/10020 (North side) No. 336 Education Offices, Downhills School & railings & walls to front

GV II

Headquarters of the Tottenham School Board. 1899-1900, almost certainly by Albert E Pridmore, architect to the Board. Brick and terracotta, hipped slated roof with tall stacks. Square building of two storeys with a symmetrical though lively facade. Main facade has projecting five-bay centrepiece with broader single-bay wings and recessed entrances to sides. Ground floor of centrepiece a vigorous design with central panelled door with toplight in lavish round-arched and projecting doorcase of terracotta with Jacobethan details. Round-arched windows to either side under terracotta Gibbsian surrounds, with smaller toplights to tripartite casements. First-floor sill band level with swan-necked pediment over panelled red brick ind doorcase. First floor with central three windows having small panes to their casements, set under keystones and within bands of terracotta decoration. Corner oriels to either side particularly lavish in their use of terracotta, with scroll mouldings and small paned casements. Terracotta balustraded pediment with brick piers, heavy cornice and broken segmental. pediment from which projects a clock. On apex of roof an open timber cupola. Wings to either side with terracotta bands, the two windows either side on ground floor with keystones, the larger single windows to first floor under segmental pediment. This same treatment continued on side elevations. Doors to either side six-panelled in pedimented door surrounds. To front, railings on dwarf, segmental-dished walls with contrasting brick piers and stone gatepiers a part of the composition. Source: Victoria County History, Middlesex, vol.RV, 1976.T

Listing NGR: TQ3258289297