Bishopshalt Grammar School (North Wing)

TQ 0682 23/387

ROYAL LANE (East Side) HILLINGDON Bishopshalt Grammar School (North Wing)

GII 1858.Tudor style five-bay building with slightly later three-bay extension to south. Two storeys and attic, newer part taller.Many-gabled front.Red brick with gable copings in several planes.Plain stone window dressings.Projecting two-storey bay at left, and one-storey bay at right, with pierced strapwork parapet. Similar parapet to glazed porch and to parapet of centre bay in left section.Slated roof with tall chimneys. Bell cupola on ridge above centrepiece. At back of house a conservatory, a long glass building with round bowed projection off-centre, Rounded roof with raised centre.Building articulated by narrow fluted iron columns.Arabesques in spandrels and in blocking course above wood cornice.Full height panels between have margin lights and shallow pointed arches.French doors with shouldered arches in bow.Inside, fixed benches on iron twisted supports and ornamental conduit grilles. At the back a stained glass window with the initials of the owner, Stephen Martin, of Day and Martin's blacking warehouse mentioned in "David Copperfield."

Listing NGR: TQ0693582717