Herne Hill School And Attached Walls And Terraces

SOUTHWARK

TQ3274 HERNE HILL 636-1/14/425 (South East side) Herne Hill School and attached walls and terraces

GV II

Formerly known as: Vicarage to Church of St Paul HERNE HILL. Vicarage, now Church of England school. c1860. RW Drew, architect. Brick in English bond, red brick diapering and red brick pointed segmental relieving arches over most of the openings; flush stone surrounds to flat- and pointed-arched openings. Roof of tile. High Victorian Gothic. EXTERIOR: garden elevation: 2-window range, 2 storeys with attic dormers to right-hand side of the composition; left-hand side of 1st floor blank, terminates in a facing gable, with triple window with pointed lancets; 1st-floor windows pointed arch, one a double window; hipped dormers over 1st-floor windows. Flat-arched French doors open out onto terrace enclosed by stone walls which appear original; 2 hipped dormers to east of gable. View of west-facing elevation restricted: features of note include a full-height canted bay; stone and brick flushwork spandrels to 1st-floor windows; iron finial to hipped bay roof. East elevation restricted from view; stacks to east wall on line with stair hall. North-facing elevation divided into 2 gable facing ranges, that on the left with 2-window range, and gableted peak: lean-to porch with triple windows and pointed diaphragm arch; to the left of porch a 2-light mullioned window; 1st-floor 2-light Y-tracery mullioned light lighting stair hall; triple window just below peak The right-hand range has no windows and is dominated by full-height chimney stack. Sill band to 1st-floor windows and brick cornice, continuous across the elevations. INTERIOR: stair hall full height, with cantilevered open-well stair; newel posts topped by quatrefoil crosses; door cases off stair hall made from plainly chamfered and painted wood, a feature which anticipates the Arts and Crafts work of the 1870s; fireplaces with finely carved Gothic ornament on the ground floor. The upstairs rooms rather plain. Forms a group with St Paul's Church, Herne Hill (qv), designed by Street.

Listing NGR: TQ3218674572