Dean'S Yard is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A Later C.14 origin; Tudor-Gothicised 1886 School house. 3 related planning applications.
Dean'S Yard
- WRENN ID
- dim-brass-gorse
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- School house
- Period
- Later C.14 origin; Tudor-Gothicised 1886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 101/12 (ABBEY PRECINT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) 24.2.58 No. 18 Dean's Yard
G.V. I
School house with archway through to Little Dean's Yard. Later C.14 origin, part of the west range of the Abbey buildings and originally Bailiff's Guest House, taken over by the Grammar School in 1461 with subsequent alterations and much rebuilding in 1886 probably by T.G. Jackson(?). Stone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Tudor-Gothicised in 1886. 3 storeys. 8 windows wide, the left hand entrance "tower" bay broader and taller. Late C.14 archway to left with tierceron vault leads through to Little Dean's Yard; to its right a pointed arched doorway with drip mould altered as 2-light window. 2 and 3-light mullioned casement windows with cusped heads to lights. The "tower" has 1st floor oriel with pierced-work parapet. The elevation is finished off with crenellated parapet, the taller section of the "tower" with a corner polygonal turret. Similar features to rear elevation to Little Dean's Yard.
R.C.H.M. Westminster School; L.E. Tanner.
Listing NGR: TQ3001479375
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