Main Building Of Rosendale Junior Mixed School

TURNEY ROAD SE21 1. (north side) 5023 Main building of Rosendale Junior Mixed School TQ 3273 28/969

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1. 1. London School Board building dated on plaque in gable; an earlier version of more developed style shown in Sunnyhill Road (qv). Stock brick with red brick and stone dressings, Two-storey tall centre block of 2 wide bays whose paired central gables are divided by a tall chimney with cupola on ridge behind. At sides the high-pitched tiled roof sweeps down to a moulded brick eaves cornice at much lower level. One-storey side wings have similar inner gabled sections and outer roofs with eaves much lower. Below the gables are tall windows; the flanking walls are blank but for ornamental panels with titles on first floor of central blOck. One-storey irregular return wings have projecting gabled ends and tall inner gables rising through eaves as in front. Curved brick shapes against a pale roughcast background give a Dutch appearance to the end gables.

Listing NGR: TQ3227073625