Former Special Girls School, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre

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TQ3182SE SANS WALK 635-1/74/750 (North side) Former Special Girls School, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre

GV II

Former Special Girls annexe of Hugh Myddelton Schools. 1902 (on the evidence of inscriptions on the nearby gate in the school wall). Yellow brick with dressings of red brick, stucco and render, tiled roof. Flat-arched entrance with decorative stone architrave in wing to north; all windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads and red brick dressings; the main building under a two-span roof and presumably originally a balanced composition to the school yard of three bays, each consisting of a tall window partly in a full dormer, a lower window under the eaves, and a stack below the ridge; extension at north end with a flat-roof; the elevation to Woodbridge Road similar but of two bays only. This building is one of those provided by the London School Board from 1892 onwards for children with learning difficulties; discipline and teaching methods were more relaxed and liberal than in the main Board Schools. (Malcolm Seaborne and Roy Lowe: The English school. Its architecture and organization..1870-1970: 1977-: PP.15-16).

Listing NGR: TQ3150782409